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The Associated Press reports that Bethesda teenager Collin McKenzie-Gude has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of attempted carjacking. McKenzie-Gude was arrested last year and charged with a number of offenses, including making and exploding pipe bombs and illegally possessing firearms. Some of those charges were later dropped, but McKenzie-Gude is still facing trial for possessing an unregistered explosive device and production of false identification documents. Among the items seized from McKenzie-Gude's home before his initial arrest was a map of Camp David marked with a presidential motorcade route, several assault rifles, two shotguns, one handgun, ammunition, plus chemicals and several gallons of liquid material and components that can be used to make homemade explosives. Yesterday's guilty plea was related to Gude's attempt to carjack a 78-year-old man in the parking lot of the White Flint Mall on Tuesday, July 29, the day that authorities searched his home.
Bethesda Teen Pleads Guilty to Attempted Carjacking
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Does anyone know about the armed robbery on 13th NW last night in Columbia Heights? The helicopters
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All that hardware and he still can't carjack a 78-year-old? Let this be a lesson kids: always register your pipe bombs and never get between a geriatric and his '86 Olds Toronado.
He failed at carjacking because he used the wrong weapons.
I bet i could have gotten the old man out of the car faster with a signed Matlock photo, a gift certificate to Old Country Buffet, and throwing a couple Werther's Originals on the ground for insurance.
"unregistered explosive device"?
I'd like to see the forms for that...
Here ya go.
Also, that ticking sound in your suitcase? Don't worry. Modern bombs don't tick. But when a suitcase vibrates, the throwers have to call the police. Nine time out of ten, it's an electric razor. But every once in a while...it's a dildo. It's company policy not to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. We use the indefinite article "a dildo." Never "YOUR dildo."
Dammit Monkey, I can't get any work done with you setting them up for me like this!
I am Jack's Medulla Oblongata.
this is proof that you should avoid bethesda (that includes north bethesda). it's a scary neighborhood, and you never know when those gangs of kids standing on the corner are going to pull a gun on your and commit unspeakable violence.
i paint with a broad brush because it's true.
i paint with a broad brush because it's true.
I agree with this comment.
And I didn't realize that carjacking was a misdemeanor. Screw zipcar, I'm going to use the GTA IV style of carsharing from now on!
Attempted carjacking is a misdemeanor. A successful carjacking is not, and is also a federal offense.
Oh, fine - punish me for being successful! Way to destroy my dreams.
I can't believe this guy was convicted of a crime he didn't even commit. "Attempted carjacking," now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?
I have been saying for a long, long, time that Bethesda is just too dangerous, scary, and filthy [shiver]. Every single person there is a criminal who can't control their kids. It's true. I drove through there once and saw it.
If this guys last name was the same as mine, he'd so be in Guantanamo right now.
I wonder if he'll get one of them liberal judges that'll say he's too pretty to go to jail and won't last a day. The kid ends up is some country club-like youth group house with a game room and a solar heated pool. He gets a
new fangled I-Phone security ankle monitor that allows him to play Bejeweled in the shower. I wonder....
I don't know Deep. The way he looks I'd worry he would make me his bitch.
Oh you dog you. Ya think he'll blame his problems on society or steroids? He could be a stand in for Eric on the Tim and Eric Show/ Great Job.
looks like the dude who spits in your number one at wendys...
Hypenated-last-name-kids are always going to be troublemakers. "Mark" my word.
Total d-bag mug shot.
Pretty sure the d-bag filter comes standard with the mug shot camera. I don't think even Photoshop can remove it.
I second that- look at that smirk. he's probably a sociopath.
Can he get a prison furlough to attend Late Night Shots?
But seriously, a misdemeanor?!
I thought that was prison? Spooning, STD's and all.
Once again, conclusive proof that red-haired stepchildren are the root of all evil.
Hey, are we sure that this isn't DCist's own Martin Austermuhle? If he were to shave off that flaming red beard, he may be able to pass for 17...and everyone knows cyclists living in cities are at least a little unstable. Someone should really look into this.
See, now, you lesbians just waiting for the right man. There are still good ones out there. Just think of the conjugal visits.
You're kidding right? It's guys like this that turn women into lesbians.
Boys will be boys...
In prison, they don't call it spooning. It's called dipping
or "Honey, I'm home. I come to fix your sink."
Aw, what a special little Montgomery County schools magnet program snowflake. I hope his mommy uses her calming NPR voice when she tells him she still loves him no matter what and that he's her special little guy.
EPIC FAIL.
"On Thursday, July 31, it was revealed that police had found a list in Gude's home that contained the names and home addresses of many of his teachers from St. John's College High, the D.C. private school from which he had recently graduated"
Too crazy for Boy's Town, too much of a boy for Crazy Town.
Gee, that bad and his middle name isn't even Wayne.
Hey! Wayne is MY middle name!
*hides clown mask*
What are you implying?
~EEE~
Hey! Wayne is MY middle name!
*hides clown mask*
What are you implying?
~EEE~