Washington, D.C. – A 50-year-old District of Columbia man, Stanley Grayson, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for committing a series of burglaries in Northwest Washington, D.C. during the Fall of 2007, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today.

Grayson, formerly of the 5900 block of 9th Street, NW, Washington, D.C., was sentenced earlier today in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Honorable Robert Morin. Grayson pled guilty in May 2008 to four counts of Second Degree Burglary in connection with four home burglaries in Northwest Washington, D.C., in October and November 2007. As part of his guilty plea, Grayson acknowledged that he committed numerous other burglaries in the months prior to his arrest in this matter.

According to the factual proffer agreed to by the defendant at the time of his guilty plea, the first burglary occurred on October 1, 2007, at about 8:45 a.m., when Grayson entered a home in the 5000 block of Arkansas Avenue, NW, by forcing the front door open. Grayson ransacked one of the bedrooms and took, among other things, a television set. His fingerprints were recovered from inside the house. Just after noon on October 20, 2007, Grayson broke into another home in the 5600 block of 5th Street, NW, by pushing in an air-conditioning unit. Grayson intended to steal items from inside the house but, when he realized that the house was occupied, fled the scene.

Less than two weeks later, on November 2, 2007, Grayson pushed in another air-conditioning unit and forced his way into another home in the 1200 block of Shepard Street, NW. After entering the home, Grayson learned that others were in the house. Like before, he fled the scene. Finally, on November 19, 2007, Grayson forced his way into a house in the 1300 block of Somerset Place, NW, by kicking in the home’s front door. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers responded to the address and were able to arrest Grayson as he was leaving the house through the back door. At the time, he was carrying a 20-inch television and assorted jewelry.

In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Taylor commended MPD Sergeant Christopher Thornton, MPD Detective Pedro Lopez, U.S. Attorney Office support personnel La June Thames and Tamaya Reid, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy Barber, who investigated and prosecuted the case.