Scorned Woman Beats, Robs Husband

A Pennsylvania woman allegedly upset that her former husband was leaving her for another woman has been charged with hiring four other individuals from Pennsylvania - including her friend’s 14-year-old son - to brutally beat and rob the 36-year-old construction company owner on the day they were to leave the United States for Egypt with their young daughter.  
The other four individuals - who were extradited from Pennsylvania - also have been charged for their roles in the plot.
The five defendants are: victim’s ex-wife Heba Salama, 32; Ryan Lane, 25; Erica Jones, 20; Abir Jimenez, 34; and her son, Mohamed Novhaili, 14. All five defendants have been charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree robbery, first-degree assault and third-degree conspiracy and face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.  The four adult defendants also have been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
According to the charges, Salama allegedly plotted with her friend and co-defendant Jimenez to pay her and three other individuals to beat and rob her ex-husband - Morade M. Mohmed - at their airport hotel room in order to prevent him from leaving the United States. As part of the alleged plan, Jimenez is charged with renting a van and driving three of the defendants  - Novhaili, Lane and Jones - to the Ramada Inn Hotel at JFK Airport at approximately 5 a.m. on July 14.  
At the hotel, Novhaili allegedly went inside to use the lobby payphone to call up to Salama and tell her to open the room door. However, he first had to request change from hotel staffers in order to use the phone.  Minutes later, Novhaili, Lane and Jones arrived at the victim’s door and Salama allegedly let them in.
The complaints additionally charge that  Novhaili and Lane then placed their hands on Mr. Mohmed’s feet to hold them but that when he began to stir, they placed a pillow over his face in an attempt to smother him. During an ensuing struggle, it is charged that Lane and Novhaili repeatedly hit Mohmed in the head and body with their fists and, at one point, Lane allegedly hit him over the head with a wooden chair. Mohmed ultimately lost consciousness, at which point, the defendants allegedly bound him with duct tape on his mouth, eyes and wrists before leaving him face down on the floor. They then allegedly robbed him of $4,000 in cash and, from under a pillow, took baggage claim tickets for 11 bags of luggage that he had previously checked in at JFK Airport.  
When the five defendants were gone, Mohmed allegedly regained consciousness and managed to free himself enough to call for help.  Returning to the hotel room, Salama allegedly told her husband and Port Authority Police, whom had responded immediately to the scene, that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint.
Mohmed was admitted to a local hospital in grave condition for various injuries that he suffered in the attack - including a cracked skull, twenty to thirty facial fractures, temporary loss of consciousness, contusions, bleeding lacerations and severe swelling to the eyes. He remained hospitalized due to the bleeding and swelling which had caused pressure on his brain.
Salama was arraigned on July 21. Novhaili, who was extradited last month from Pennsylvania, was arraigned on July 28 before Queens Criminal Judge Joseph Zayas, who remanded him in lieu of $250,000 bail and set a return date of August 11.