An 18-year-old Silver Spring man was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for holding up a hotel party with a sawed off shotgun and robbing party-goers.
Investigators said a woman rented a room at the Homewood Suites Hotel on Colesville Road in Silver Spring Jan. 25. She let Jackson Julius into the room, believing him to be another guest.
When Julius got in, he pulled out a sawed off shotgun, held the party-goers up, and stole their personal items, phones, cash and other electronics.
He was arrested shortly after the incident trying to get on a bus at the intersection of University Boulevard and Veirs Mill Road.
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