LOS ANGELES (AP) - Prosecutors say a woman who pretended to have a bomb attached to her body in a plot to rob the Los Angeles-area bank where she was a manager has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
A U.S. Attorney’s Office statement says 33-year-old Aurora Barrera received the sentence Wednesday and was ordered to pay more than $500,000 in restitution.
Barrera and her ex-boyfriend Reyes Vega were convicted of bank robbery and conspiracy in March. Reyes was sentenced to 14 years in prison last month.
Barrera, a former manager at the Bank of America branch, claimed she’d been kidnapped and forced to wear the device when she convinced a co-worker to help her empty the vault in 2012. Authorities say the bomb was a realistic fake.
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