Maylin Carranza Garcia, Indicted for Robbing a Parking Enforcement Officer

Monday, July 21, 2025

WASHINGTON – Maylin Carranza Garcia, 29, of Annandale, Virginia, was indicted in Superior Court on felony charges of robbery and retaliating against a government official on June 25, 2025, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. 

           Carranza Garcia was indicted by the grand jury on July 16, 2025. An arraignment is scheduled for July 29, 2025.  

           According to the government’s evidence, at approximately 3:07 p.m. on June 25, 2025, at 2526 L Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., a Parking Enforcement Officer just finished issuing a parking ticket for a driver who refused to move their car from a no parking zone. The driver’s sister, Carranza Garcia, then engaged in a verbal altercation with the parking enforcement officer before snatching her parking enforcement device and fleeing the scene. Carranza Garcia discarded the parking enforcement device on the side of the road. 

           Carranza Garcia was located and arrested on June 26, 2025. The stolen parking enforcement device was recovered the same day.

           Joining in the announcement was Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

           This case is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department. 

           This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kadian Carter.

           An indictment is merely an allegation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.