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Carjacker gets two years
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A man who carjacked two women and then fought with deputies at the hospital has been sentenced to two years in prison.The defendant, Michael Wayne Pennington, 25, entered guilty pleas to charges of assault, reckless endangerment with a motor vehicle, evading arrest, aggravated trespassing and resisting arrest. He was also ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.His charges come after he commandeered a vehicle and demanded the driver take him to his mother’s house. After the female driver did as ordered, Pennington told her to take him to his truck and became enraged when he asked her for a cigarette and she did not have one.