PHILADELPHIA — A Delaware man has admitted to participating in the 2021 gunpoint carjacking of U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon in Philadelphia's FDR Park.
Josiah Brown, 20, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe to one count of carjacking and a related firearms charge. As part of the plea agreement, Brown also admitted to participating in a separate carjacking in Philadelphia in November 2021.
He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and is to be sentenced in June. Rufe ordered him to remain imprisoned until then, calling the charges “very serious.”