A Cross Lanes man faces up to 50 years in federal prison after pleading guilty Monday to carjacking and drug charges.
David Allen Young, 24, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to two counts of carjacking and one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. He is set to be sentenced Oct. 5 by U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver.
Young admitted that from the summer of 2014 through last January, he sold at least 40 pounds of crystal meth and was part of a large-scale meth trafficking network, according to a news release from Acting U.S. Attorney Carol Casto's office.
Young also admitted that on Jan. 24, he stole a Ford Expedition in Putnam County and fired a shot at an occupied vehicle in St. Albans. Later that day, Young admitted he walked up to a Ford Edge SUV at the intersection of Big Tyler Road and Waycross Drive in Cross Lanes and pointed a 9-millimeter handgun at the driver. Young drove away in the SUV after ordering the man out of the vehicle.
When Young reached a Chevrolet S-10 truck, occupied by another man and his juvenile son, Young ordered them out of the truck at gunpoint. He then fled in that truck to the Dalewood Trailer Park in Cross Lanes, according to the release.
"He shot through the glass door of a residence in the trailer park and stole a television, which he intended to trade for drugs," the release states. Young was arrested two days later.