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Official press releases from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia under Matthew M. Graves directly contradict the claim that the prior administration prosecuted "exactly one" juvenile for armed carjacking over a decade.

Examples:

• On May 17, 2024, Graves's office announced that three juveniles ages 16-17 were "charged as adults" for a series of armed carjackings and robberies.
• On May 16, 2024, Graves's office announced that Montello Washington, 17, was indicted and "charged as an adult with armed carjacking."
• On December 16, 2024, Graves's office announced that Robert Littles and Jessup Meeks had pleaded guilty in a November 2023 carjacking case, and stated that both had been juveniles at the time of the offense and both were charged as adults.

Those are multiple juvenile armed-carjacking prosecutions from the prior U.S. Attorney's office in just one year, so the statement that there was "exactly one" over a decade is factually incorrect.

This claim describes the prior practice as a policy of refusing to charge juveniles as adults. But official DOJ announcements from the prior U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia show that juveniles were in fact charged as adults in armed-carjacking cases before the change in leadership.

Examples from the Graves administration:

• May 17, 2024: the office announced three juveniles were charged as adults for a series of armed carjackings.
• May 16, 2024: the office announced that Montello Washington, 17, was indicted and charged as an adult with armed carjacking.
• December 16, 2024: the office announced that Robert Littles and Jessup Meeks, who were 16 and 17 at the time of the offense, had both been charged as adults in a November 2023 carjacking case.

Those official cases contradict the idea that the prior administration had a blanket policy of refusing adult charges for juveniles.