WASHINGTON, DC – Two juveniles who’ve been charged in connection with the attempted carjacking and beating of a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer earlier in August have been released from custody by a D.C. judge, granting the alleged youthful offenders minimal restrictions while their cases play out.
As previously reported here at Law Enforcement Today, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the former DOGE staffer who largely gained media attention at the onset of the Trump administration due to his online nickname, was beaten bloody after confronting a group of would-be carjackers on August 3rd who tried stealing the vehicle he and his girlfriend were in at the time.
According to reports following the incident, two unnamed 15-year-olds were arrested in connection with the attempted carjacking and gang assault, but a D.C. judge extended a controversial olive branch to the two juveniles charged in the violent attack on August 21st, granting the unnamed juveniles pre-trial release despite the grievous nature of the alleged offenses.
Judge Kendra Briggs, a Biden appointee, issued the decision to see the 15-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl given variations of pretrial release, with the female juvenile being sent to a youth shelter home and the male juvenile being released to the custody of his parents.
The male juvenile reportedly must adhere to a strict curfew while in the care of his parents and has been fitted with electronic monitoring.
In the judge’s order, she clarified that the two juveniles are only permitted to travel between “school and home, that’s it,” emphasizing that any new arrests the juveniles may acquire while released will result in an emergency hearing where their pretrial release can be revoked.
The release of the unnamed female juvenile was contested fervently by prosecutors, who pointed out that she already has another pending case out of Maryland and poses both a danger to the community and serves as a flight risk.
However, counsel representing the female juvenile downplayed her alleged role in the attempted carjacking and gang assault, claiming her client was only “in the vicinity” of the August 3rd incident.
Judge Briggs’s decision to release the accused youth offenders unironically mirrored the expressed sentiments of President Donald Trump’s response to the attack on the former DOGE staffer, where the president took to Truth Social on August 6th with, “Local ‘youths’ and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released.”
A third suspect wanted in connection with the incident is still at large.
As previously reported here at Law Enforcement Today, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the former DOGE staffer who largely gained media attention at the onset of the Trump administration due to his online nickname, was beaten bloody after confronting a group of would-be carjackers on August 3rd who tried stealing the vehicle he and his girlfriend were in at the time.
According to reports following the incident, two unnamed 15-year-olds were arrested in connection with the attempted carjacking and gang assault, but a D.C. judge extended a controversial olive branch to the two juveniles charged in the violent attack on August 21st, granting the unnamed juveniles pre-trial release despite the grievous nature of the alleged offenses.
Judge Kendra Briggs, a Biden appointee, issued the decision to see the 15-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl given variations of pretrial release, with the female juvenile being sent to a youth shelter home and the male juvenile being released to the custody of his parents.
The male juvenile reportedly must adhere to a strict curfew while in the care of his parents and has been fitted with electronic monitoring.
In the judge’s order, she clarified that the two juveniles are only permitted to travel between “school and home, that’s it,” emphasizing that any new arrests the juveniles may acquire while released will result in an emergency hearing where their pretrial release can be revoked.
The release of the unnamed female juvenile was contested fervently by prosecutors, who pointed out that she already has another pending case out of Maryland and poses both a danger to the community and serves as a flight risk.
However, counsel representing the female juvenile downplayed her alleged role in the attempted carjacking and gang assault, claiming her client was only “in the vicinity” of the August 3rd incident.
Judge Briggs’s decision to release the accused youth offenders unironically mirrored the expressed sentiments of President Donald Trump’s response to the attack on the former DOGE staffer, where the president took to Truth Social on August 6th with, “Local ‘youths’ and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released.”
A third suspect wanted in connection with the incident is still at large.
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Comments
2025-08-26T17:12-0400 | Comment by: Dawn
No surprise that they'd let the girl out despite her compounding circumstances (the previously existing Maryland case). These kids are getting off far too easy for criminal behavior. Judges seem to be treating violent crimes committed by teenagers as not much worse than shoplifting a candy bar. These two kids should, at the very least, be under house arrest, if not confined to a facility, where they can't hurt some innocent member of the public while awaiting trial. This was a VIOLENT CRIME, and it needs to be handled far more seriously than the courts seem to be doing.
2025-08-26T19:56-0400 | Comment by: Charlotte
Hopefully we are seeing the beginning of the end of this insanity. Probably the worst example of unqualified woke black women that were promoted despite being woefully unable to meet the need of the office: Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court.
2025-08-27T08:43-0400 | Comment by: Dean
This is just so typical of the swamp.If they don't like law and order maybe what we should do is back a few tractor trailers up in their neighborhoods,be sure they are loaded with automatic weapons,open the doors and walk away.I think the crime rate would drop quick and dramatically low after a week of killing each other off.
2025-08-29T19:25-0400 | Comment by: James
Black racism is alive and well in America today!