A Buford man who pleaded guilty to a 2011 carjacking in Flowery Branch was sentenced to prison Thursday in federal court in Gainesville. Rodolfo Esquivel, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William C. O’Kelley for using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, the office of U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates announced in a news release. Esquivel received 15 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $10,034.