WASHINGTON, July 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
A Peruvian national who committed an armed carjacking was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould.
Omar Gayoso, 22, pled guilty in March 2026, to carjacking and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, in connection with a July 2025 armed carjacking. On June 24, 2026, United States District Judge Ed Kinkeade sentenced Gayoso to 168 months in federal prison. The Court also ordered Gayoso to pay $26,000 in restitution.
"This defendant not only entered our country illegally, but once he got ...