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| Witch robber bags 13 years |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/08/2006 |
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OLYMPIA, WA - A woman who wore a witch costume while robbing a bank on Halloween has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The well-publicized heist at a Washington Mutual branch in Lacey last fall was one of four in and around Olympia to which Vanessa D. Molina, 23, pleaded guilty. She also pleaded guilty to first-degree identity theft, first- and second-degree theft, criminal impersonation and drug possession. She abandoned a witch hat and about $2,000 cash when a dye pack exploded after that heist, but got away with about $11,500 in three other holdups in October, including one that occurred in Olympia less than an hour after the Lacey robbery, according to documents filed in Thurston County Superior Court. Molina was sentenced Monday, a day before the start of the trial of Donald E. Jefferson, 37, identified by investigators as her accomplice and boyfriend. They have told authorities they moved to the area from California last summer and have children in California. Molina and Jefferson were arrested in November after police determined she was the same woman who had used a California woman's identification to buy furniture on credit. The furniture was traced the couple's apartment, which had been raided by Tacoma police weeks earlier in a separate investigation. Jefferson's criminal history includes convictions for sex with a minor, car theft, drug possession, unlawful possession of a firearm and making threats with the intent to terrorize. Prosecutors have said that if convicted, he could face life in prison under the state's "three strikes, you're out" law. During a court appearance in November, Jefferson extended his middle finger toward news cameras. |
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