St. Louis Carjacker Sentenced to 162 Months in Prison

ST. LOUIS - U.S. District John A. Ross on Tuesday sentenced a felon to 162 months in prison for carjacking a woman in St. Louis in 2024.

On Jan. 5, 2024, Deionte Grice approached the woman, who had just parked her 2020 Kia Optima in the 5300 block of Devonshire Avenue in St. Louis. Grice pointed a gun at her, demanded her belongings and took her car, phone and purse. Grice later struck a curb as he drove into Forest Park, disabling the vehicle. He abandoned it and got on a MetroBus.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers stopped the bus and found Grice with the stolen purse and two handguns.

Grice, 31, of St. Louis, pleaded guilty in October to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He also admitted violating his supervised release in a 2020 case in which he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Martin prosecuted the case.