PHILADELPHIA, PA — A Philadelphia man who terrorized local business owners and an elderly store employee in two savage, gunpoint home invasions has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison, federal prosecutors announced this week.
U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said Abdullah Hartage, 28, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Juan R. Sánchez to serve 18 years behind bars, followed by five years of supervised release, and to pay $60,000 in restitution for orchestrating the violent robberies that left multiple victims bloodied, traumatized, and robbed inside their own homes.
Hartage and codefendant Ali Chandler were charged in a superseding indictment in October 2022. Both pleaded guilty in October 2024 to conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce under the Hobbs Act and to two counts of committing or threatening physical violence to further those crimes. Chandler remains in federal custody awaiting sentencing…