Charlotte Bloods gang member stole car at gunpoint and then posted a photo of it

A Charlotte man the U.S. Attorney’s Office says has ties to the Bloods gang will be in prison for nearly 16 years for stealing a car at gunpoint and later posting photos of it on social media, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Marcus Mayfield, 33, held a Dodge Hellcat owner at gunpoint while another man took the car’s keys in January 2023, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Mayfield and the man, Kaionta Dabney, took $2,000 and a Glock from the car, too.

Mayfield was sentenced on state charges relating to the offense in January 2024. In Catawba County Superior Court, he pleaded guilty to robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by felon and was sentenced to six to eight years in prison, according to state prison records.

He had served two years of that sentence when he appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina on Tuesday.

His appointed attorney, Renae Alt-Summers, asked District Judge Matthew Orso to allow Mayfield to serve both the state and federal sentences at once, but the newly confirmed Trump appointee sentenced Mayfield to an additional 100 months on carjacking and aiding and abetting a carjacking.

Mayfield’s co-conspirator, Dabney, was arrested and charged in two armed carjackings in January 2023 and received two seven-year sentences. For being involved in one of those carjackings, Mayfield could spend more time in prison than Dabney.