United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Chihean Jones, aka “Cha,” 41, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kelley Brisbon Hodge for two commercial robberies and the murder of a Tacony gas station attendant during one of those robberies. Hodge sentenced Jones to life in prison for the murder and 20 years each for the robberies, to be served concurrently.
Jones was charged in January 2024 with two counts of robbery interfering with interstate commerce, murder in the course of using and carrying a firearm and using and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. In November of last year, a federal jury found him guilty on all counts.
As detailed in court filings and proven at trial, on Aug. 22, 2022, the defendant drove two other men to a cell phone store on the 100 block of E. Olney Ave. While Jones waited in his Chevrolet Suburban, the two others went inside the store, forced their way into a back room and stole multiple cell phones. The three men then fled the scene in the defendant’s Suburban…