NASHVILLE MAN SENTENCED FOR NOVEMBER 2020 VIOLENT CRIME SPREE

NASHVILLE – Defendant Miles Priddy, 24, of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced today to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for a string of violent crimes he committed in Nashville in 2020, announced United States Attorney Henry C. Leventis.

Priddy and his co-defendant, Dion Swanson, were charged with multiple crimes by a federal grand jury in 2022. On April 17, 2023, Priddy pled guilty to attempted carjacking, carjacking, and using a firearm during a crime of violence. 

The charges stem from a crime spree on the evening of November 23, 2020, involving an attempted carjacking in East Nashville where Priddy and Swanson attempted to carjack a vehicle. After the victim said his vehicle did not work, Priddy and his co-defendant beat him with weapons and their fists. They then took the victim’s cellphone, wallet, and pants before fleeing.

Less than an hour later, the two men crashed into the back of a vehicle stopped at an intersection. As the driver exited his vehicle to inspect the damage, Priddy and Swanson committed an armed carjacking. When the driver hesitated to give up his keys, Priddy and Swanson beat him unconscious in front of his family and then took his vehicle. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers apprehended Priddy and Swanson a short time later.

"As a result of today's sentence, this violent criminal will be removed from our community for almost a decade," said United States Attorney Henry C. Leventis.  "I commend the outstanding work done in this case by the Metro-Nashville Police Department, the FBI, and the prosecutors in our office to protect Nashvillians from violent crime."

Priddy’s co-defendant has entered a guilty plea and will be sentenced by United States District Judge William L. Campbell Jr. in September.

The FBI Memphis Field Office and Metropolitan Nashville Police Department investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Herbert L. Bunton III for the Middle District of Tennessee prosecuted the case.

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