Two teens charged in the attempted carjacking of a former U.S. DOGE Service staffer earlier this month will be moved into less restrictive detention on orders from a D.C. judge, despite a prosecutor’s objection.
The hearing took place as President Donald Trump’s D.C. police takeover stretches into its second week — an extraordinary flex of federal power ignited in part by the Aug. 3 attack on Edward Coristine, a software engineer who began work in the federal government as a protégé of Elon Musk.
Police arrested the 15-year-old boy and girl from Maryland after the attempted carjacking in Northwest Washington. The teens were being held at the Youth Services Center, or YSC, a facility in D.C. that holds young offenders before and after their court hearings as they wait to be placed in rehabilitation centers.
The teens appeared Thursday in front of Judge Kendra D. Briggs in a hearing in D.C. Superior Court that shed little light on the alleged crime or those accused of committing it.
The girl will move to a youth shelter house, the boy to his mother’s home. Both will be subjected to, among other restrictions, electronic monitoring and a 24-hour curfew — “school and home, that’s it,” Briggs said.