ELLSWORTH (AP) — A woman from Down East Maine who pleaded guilty to a crime spree that ended with the shooting death of her boyfriend is going to prison.
A judge on Thursday ordered Ashley Crowley of Beals to serve two years of a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
In December 2010, her boyfriend, 23-year-old Nicholas Richards of Machias, was shot to death after they tried to rob a man they believed to be a drug dealer, with court documents indicating Crowley lured the man from his home by claiming she’d been in a car crash. After being hit with pepper spray, the man fired a gun, killing Richards.
Beals pleaded guilty to burglary, robbery stealing drugs, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, criminal trespass, criminal mischief and criminal use of disabling chemicals.
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