DECATUR, GA — A Decatur man will spend more than a decade behind bars after pleading guilty to charges in three separate cases.

Under the plea agreement, a DeKalb County judge sentenced Dieu Doumdje to 30 years in prison, with at least 15 years to serve behind bars, without the possibility of parole, for his involvement in the November 2021 theft of a Ford Explorer with an infant asleep in the back.

The child’s parents were unloading groceries when the SUV was stolen, officials said.

The SUV was discovered nine hours later, but the baby wasn’t found until the next day in the back of an unrelated minivan.

In the second case, Doumdje held up a pair of Clarkston High School students in 2024. Officials say the last case happened last month when he was accused of helping three inmates who escaped from the Dekalb County Jail.