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Discover LudwigThe phrase "armed carjacking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific type of car theft that involves the use of a weapon or the threat of violence.
Example: "The police reported an increase in incidents of armed carjacking in the downtown area."
Alternatives: "weaponized car theft" or "violent carjacking".
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Police identified the suspect as Andy Thompson, 22, of Northeast Washington and said he has been charged with armed carjacking and assault on a police officer while armed.
A short time later, police received reports of an armed carjacking by two males in the area of Third Street in Cambridge.
The other shooting happened in Northeast Washington when officers tried to arrest a suspect in the armed carjacking of a FedEx truck.
An armed carjacking that state and federal officials at first said last week had occurred in Cambridge, Mass., actually appears to have taken place across the Charles River in Allston, a Boston neighborhood, several law enforcement officials said Thursday.
The McLaren driver, who escaped an attempted armed carjacking in Brazil in 2010, said the incident had caused him and his wife – an Argentinian-Japanese fashion model – to make changes to their personal security.
The State Department Web site warned travelers to Kenya that "violent criminal attacks, including armed carjacking and home invasions/burglary, can occur at any time and in any location, and are becoming increasingly frequent, brazen, vicious and often fatal".
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Such criminals, the advisory continued, "commit crimes such as murder, kidnapping, carjacking, armed robbery, rapes, and other aggravated assaults".
Also, Fernandinho had supposedly ordered his men not to carry out "violent" crimes, such as carjacking, armed robbery, and murder, although he was still selling drugs.
Two of the suicide bombers in the Brussels attacks last week, brothers Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, had spent time in Belgian prisons for violent offenses that included armed robbery and carjacking.
He'd been imprisoned for assault with a deadly weapon, carjacking, armed robbery.
Repeat offenders whose crimes range from armed robbery to carjacking to assault with a deadly weapon have been given the choice by a judge: incarceration or rehabilitation.
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