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This claim says the new administration ended a prior policy of refusing to charge juveniles as adults. But official DOJ materials from the prior administration directly contradict that.

A July 8, 2024 DOJ fact sheet from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. stated that “11 juveniles [were] charged as adults under Title 16 for various armed robberies and carjackings.” That was during Matthew Graves’s tenure.

DOJ also issued case-specific press releases under Graves in 2024 showing juveniles being charged as adults in armed carjacking cases, including:

• May 17, 2024: three juveniles were “charged as adults” in a series of armed carjackings and robberies.
• March 14, 2024: a teen who was 17 at the time of a carjacking was charged “as an adult under Title 16.”

So there was not a blanket policy of refusing to charge juveniles as adults; the office was already doing so before the new U.S. Attorney took over.

The claim gives a precise number — “exactly one” juvenile prosecuted for armed carjacking over a decade — but official DOJ records show multiple such prosecutions during the prior administration alone.

Most directly, a July 8, 2024 fact sheet from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. said there were “11 juveniles charged as adults under Title 16 for various armed robberies and carjackings.”

DOJ press releases from 2024 provide concrete examples:

• On May 17, 2024, DOJ announced that three juveniles had been “charged as adults” in a series of armed carjackings and robberies.
• On March 14, 2024, DOJ announced that a teen who was 17 at the time of the carjacking had been indicted and charged as an adult under Title 16.
• On February 12, 2025, DOJ announced another juvenile charged as an adult for an August 2024 armed carjacking.

Because official records show multiple juvenile armed-carjacking prosecutions, the post’s “exactly one … over a decade” claim is not accurate.