Candice Martinez, aka “The Cellphone Robber”, was sentenced today in Alexandria for committing several bank robberies in Northern Virginia, all while chatting away with her accomplice and boyfriend on her cellphone. The sentence was 12 years in (Federal PMITA) Prison: 7 for the use of a gun in a bank robbery and 5 more for the actual robbery.
The judge said he had reviewed Martinez’s life story, including her seeming rise to success at Boys and Girls Town and her enrollment in college. “Reading your life story,” Lee said, “one would have thought you’d be graduating from college. But now, you’re graduating to prison.”
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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