Darnell Lamont Savoy, 25, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offence, which was revealed during the investigation into an October 2022 stabbing.
The stabbing occurred while Savoy was on pre-trial release, over the federal government’s written and oral objections — in connection with the December 2018 shooting of a 14-year-old boy in Northeast.
The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Scott of the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division, and Chief Pamela A. Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
Savoy pleaded guilty on April 17, 2024, to the use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offence before U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly. In addition to the five-year prison sentence, Judge Kelly today ordered Savoy to serve four years of supervised release.
Despite the federal government’s written and oral objections, in 2021, Savoy was released from custody while awaiting trial in Superior Court on charges of assault with intent to kill while armed and related offences stemming from the 2018 shooting.Â
According to court documents, months later, on October 11, 2022, Savoy allegedly stabbed a person during an argument and fled the scene. Investigators tracked Savoy to the 3900 block of Southern Avenue, SE. On the morning of October 21, 2022, MPD officers and FBI agents executed a search warrant at an apartment unit where Savoy was staying with a woman and a 3-year-old child.
During the search, law enforcement found a plastic bag containing 4.55 grams of an off-white powder, a digital scale with white powder residue, a red cut straw with white powder residue, and a two-pack of naloxone. The powder and the residues tested positive for fentanyl.
In a blue jacket that contained Savoy’s ID and credit card, investigators discovered 27 zip baggies with an off-white powder weighing a total of 7.3 grams, 29 blue pills stamped M30, 16 red zip baggies containing an off-white powder weighing nearly 5 grams, and $473 in U.S. currency. The powders tested positive for fentanyl.
In a hall closet, on top of a dryer, officers discovered a loaded, unregistered, semi-automatic Glock 30, loaded with 24 rounds of .45 calibre ammunition. DNA testing linked Savoy to the firearm. The fentanyl recovered during the search warrant was found in a common area of the apartment that the three-year-old had access to, which could have led to the death or serious injury of the child.
On March 29, 2024, Savoy and two co-defendants, Jamal Matthews and Stefon Freshley, pleaded guilty in Superior Court to their roles in the December 28, 2018, shooting of a father and son in the Clay Terrace neighbourhood. Savoy was driving as Matthews fired 30 shots into an SUV in which the father and son were sitting. The boy was shot nine times, including in the head, abdomen, chest, and back. The father sustained gunshot wounds to his leg and hand. The three men are scheduled to be sentenced for those offences on August 30.
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