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Clinging Carjacker Gets Slap on the Wrist
A man who attempted to violently carjack a Lubavitcher motorist and others in 2014 was sentenced last week by a district court judge to zero jail time, despite facing more than a dozen serious charges following his arrest and an extensive criminal history. A video of the attacker clinging to the side of a taxi as it drove on the highway for nine miles went viral at the time.
Three years ago, in late April, 2014, a Crown Heights resident on his way home from work had a harrowing experience when a man attempted to carjack his vehicle as he was driving through the Bronx. The driver then filmed a dramatic scene unfold as the attacker attempted to break into several other vehicles, one of which he clung to for almost nine miles along a busy highway.
The suspect eventually fell off the vehicle, a taxi, and then ran over to another vehicle occupied by an elderly man and pulled him out. He then crashed the vehicle into a tractor trailer before he was finally apprehended and placed under arrest. The suspect admitted to being heavily intoxicated with a variety of narcotics.
The video our reader filmed of the attack went viral, showing the suspect, later identified as 26-year-old Matthew McCorkle, clinging to the side of a taxi driving at a high speed down the Bruckner Expressway.
Prior to this event, McCorkle had a long rap sheet that includes criminal possession of a stolen weapon, driving with a suspended license and drug violations.
The Crown Heights resident’s assistance to the prosecutors in the case was acknowledged in a letter he received today from the Bronx District Attorney, thanking him and informing him that McCorkle had been sentenced to three years’ probation (see below).
Joe
Duh it’s the Bronx
Ma Rabbi
That idiot judge should be thrown in jail.
Sunflower state
Remind the judge about Pessa Leah Lapine AH who was murdered by someone with commuted sentence who by the way was up for parole this year