Armed Robberies At Philly-Area Hotels Ends With Prison For Delco Man

YEADON, PA — A Delaware County man who committed numerous armed robberies at Philadelphia-area hotels was hit with prison time recently.

United States Attorney David Metcalf said Naim-Shahid Jumah Austin, 28, of Yeadon, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Cynthia M. Rufe on Monday to 144 months in prison and five years of supervised release for a spate of armed robberies targeting local hotels in late 2022.

In January 2023, Austin was charged by indictment with six counts of robbery which interferes with interstate commerce (Hobbs Act robbery), and firearms offenses. In December 2024, Austin pleaded guilty to all the robberies, and to using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.

Between September 2022 and December 2022, Austin targeted various hotels in the region.

He would go to them in the early morning hours, when one employee was usually working alone at the front desk.

Authorities said he terrorized victims at gunpoint, demanding that they hand over cash from the registers.

Austin was armed with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol and drove his mother’s car to all six robberies, which occurred at hotels in Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties.

Hotels that he robbed were:

• Courtyard by Marriott, Tredyffrin Township;
• Holiday Inn & Suites, Drexel Hill;
• Fairfield Inn & Suites, Broomall;
• Home2 Suites by Hilton, Glen Mills;
• Marriott Philadelphia West, West Conshohocken;
• and Holiday Inn Express & Suites, West Chester.

West Goshen Township Police located and arrested Austin minutes after the West Chester incident on Dec. 12, 2022.

"Naim Austin was on a one-man crime spree, committing six armed robberies in less than three months," Metcalf said. "He threatened the hotel employees he victimized at gunpoint, to terrify them into compliance. This sentence keeps him off the street and holds him accountable for what he’s done. My office and our partners are committed to making our communities safer by bringing violent offenders like this to justice."