PHILADELPHIA — This is an official press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)), published as received.
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Tymair Harris, 23, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 52 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release by United States District Judge Kai N. Scott for his role in planning and committing the armed robbery of a South Jersey cell phone store.
The defendant was charged by indictment in April 2025 and pleaded guilty this March to conspiracy to commit a robbery interfering with interstate commerce (Hobbs Act robbery).
As detailed in court filings and admitted to by the defendant, on November 28, 2022, he and his co-conspirators committed the armed robbery of a Verizon Wireless store on Route 73 in Voorhees, New Jersey. Harris used a firearm to force employees into the store’s back room where the safe was kept and held them there at gunpoint. Shortly thereafter, he and his co-conspirators fled the store with more than $61,000 worth of electronics.
Later that evening, following an approximately nine-mile police chase from Voorhees to Philadelphia, the defendant was apprehended by officers with the Philadelphia Police Department.
This case was investigated by FBI Philadelphia’s Violent Crimes Task Force and South Jersey Resident Agency and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Meghan A. Farley and Lauren Stram.
