Biography
David Elmakayes was charged in connection with a series of ATM bombings that occurred in Philadelphia during the unrest of June 2020. Authorities alleged that he used an explosive device to severely damage an ATM in North Philadelphia and was arrested shortly afterward while carrying additional explosives and a firearm.
He was later convicted and sentenced in June 2022 to 15 years in federal prison for using an explosive device to damage property and for illegal possession of a firearm.
Detention motion distinguished from an entered order
The government’s June 22, 2020 motion in United States v. David Elmakayes, Eastern District of Pennsylvania case 2:20-cr-00218-CFK, document 6 (magistrate number 20-1026), is signed by Assistant United States Attorney Joseph A. LaBar. He is also expressly identified as the prosecutor in the Justice Department’s June 18 announcement. The blank prosecutor field is filled from those sources. PDF pages 4–6 contain a proposed detention order: its date and judicial signature are blank, and the certificate of service on page 7 explicitly describes it as a proposed order. Its printed judicial name does not establish an entered detention ruling or identify the later sentencing judge, and the filing date is not a jail-admission date.
The motion describes a June 3 nighttime incident and arrest nearby, consistent with the existing June 3–4 arrest bounds; no exact intake or discharge day is added. Its account of five prior convictions, probation, warrants and unspecified previous prison time does not supply individually dated earlier jail episodes. The projected maximum, mandatory minimum and guideline calculations are prosecution forecasts, not the fifteen-year sentence subsequently recorded in this profile. The reviewed seven-page file refers to an affidavit as Exhibit 1 but does not include that affidavit; it is not claimed as reviewed within this motion. No birth or death date or foreign-custody episode is established by this filing.
Reviewed primary filing: Government’s Motion for Pretrial Detention and proposed order, filed June 22, 2020, document 6, PDF pages 1–7. Justice Department announcement, June 18, 2020, corroborating the named prosecutor and distinguishing accusations from conviction.
