WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that two Philadelphia men have each been sentenced to some two decades in prison for conspiring to carry out a string of gunpoint robberies throughout the city in 2022. Three people were shot in two separate incidents during the defendants' crime spree.

Lance Ryan, 28, was sentenced this afternoon to 262 months in prison and five years of supervised release by United States District Chief Judge Wendy Beetlestone. Ryan pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, two counts of robbery...