ABERDEEN, Miss. - A Southaven man was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for carjacking Tuesday.

According to information presented in court, 27-year-old Lacyrus Green met two people in the parking lot of a Walmart in Southaven under the guise of test driving a car they had for sale. Once they got back from the test, documents show, Green pulled a BB gun that had been designed to look like an AR-style pistol and threatened them before stealing the car. Court documents say Green was later caught in Memphis.

Green was sentenced to seven years and eleven months in prison, with three years of supervised release afterward.

"This office is committed to the fairly straightforward principle that violent criminals such as this defendant should go to prison," said U.S. Attorney Clay Joyner

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