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KCK Carjacker Sentenced To 17 Years +

USDOJ colorA Kansas City, Kansas man who led police on a 17-minute chase at speeds up to 112 miles per hour will serve more than 17 years in federal prison.

A U.S. judge sentenced Anthony L. Irvin to serve 207 months for his guilty plea to carjacking and firearms charges.

In his plea, Irvin admitted that on May 26, 2013, he and his co-defendants walked to a Stop Shop gas station at 6865 State Avenue in Kansas City, Kan., where they stole a 2004 Ford Freestar minivan.

Irvin held the driver of the minivan at gunpoint while co-defendants Derrick Freeman and Terry Tillman took the driver’s wallet and keys. The defendants drove away in the minivan, with Irvin at the wheel.

When the defendants realized officers had spotted their vehicle, they led police on a 17-minute chase at speeds up to 112 miles per hour. The minivan wrecked in a plowed field near Leavenworth Road and North 184th Street in Basehor, Kan., where the defendants fled on foot.

Freeman fired a handgun at a law enforcement officer before being arrested. He awaits sentencing. Tillman was sentenced to ten hears in federal prison.

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