Brevard County Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Titusville Carjacking Spree
By Space Coast Daily // March 7, 2026
Brevard County jury found Habersham guilty of carjacking
BREVARD COUNTY • TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA – LaNorris B. Habersham wrecked the first vehicle he and a friend carjacked in Titusville, crashing the Ram pickup into a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 before it rolled over into the median guardrail.
In a hurry to escape, Habersham and the friend climbed out of the wreckage, pushed and punched a good Samaritan who had stopped to help them, and sped north in the man’s Chevy Malibu.
Six years after Habersham’s arrest in Georgia, a Brevard County jury found Habersham guilty of carjacking on March 5, capping a four-day trial in Viera.
Prosecutors Jennifer Mostert and Sara Flenniken also convinced the jury that Habersham, 31, should be sentenced as a Prison Releasee Reoffender, a status that enables longer mandatory sentences.
Circuit Judge Laura Moody sentenced Habersham immediately to 30 years in prison with no “gain” time off for good behavior. He received credit for six years already spent in the Brevard County Jail awaiting his trial, which was delayed by COVID-related court closures.
Habersham’s friend and co-defendant, Jalen Smith, agreed to plead guilty to carjacking in 2020 and received a 20-year prison sentence.
The two men from Pompano Beach, Florida, launched their crime spree in Titusville on Feb. 18, 2020, by trying unsuccessfully to carjack a vehicle from a person at a BP gas station on Garden Street near I-95.
Moments later, they attacked and beat a man in the parking lot of a nearby hotel, stealing his blue Ram pickup truck and leaving the victim badly injured.
They didn’t get far on northbound I-95 before swerving across all lanes and crashing.
Inside the wrecked pickup truck, Titusville police discovered a mobile phone that didn’t belong to the truck’s owner. Pop-up notifications on the phone from Facebook Messenger included information that connected the device to Habersham.
The same day, Titusville detectives showed the Good Samaritan a photo lineup and surveillance video from the BP Station, and he positively identified Habersham and Smith as the carjackers. The victim later provided key testimony at trial, prosecutors said.
While Habersham faces multiple other counts of armed robbery and attempted armed robbery from the incidents at the gas station and hotel, they were filed in a separate case.
During this trial, Mostert and Flenniken were limited to presenting evidence of the carjacking of the Good Samaritan only.
After the trial, Mostert and Flenniken praised the victim for his continued cooperation and willingness to testify, as well as the jury for their attention during the trial.
“Mr. Habersham acknowledged on the stand that he was not complying with probation in Broward County, did not have a job, or any legitimate reason for being in Brevard County,” Mostert said.
“He came here merely as part of a crime spree. The citizens of Brevard County are safer with him behind bars.”
