Woman gets life in 'pizza bomber' case

ERIE, Pa., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania woman was sentenced to life in prison Monday in the 2003 so-called "pizza bomber" case that ended with the death of a man after he robbed a bank.

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was convicted in federal court in November of aiding and abetting an armed bank robbery that ended in a death, which carries the mandatory life sentence, and of aiding and abetting the use of a destructive device in a crime of violence. The 62-year-old woman is to serve the 30-year term on the second count consecutively to her life term, the Erie (Pa.) Times-News reported.

Diehl-Armstrong claims she was framed in the bank-robbery plot that ended in the bombing death of 46-year-old Brian Wells in Summit Township on Aug. 28, 2003.

Wells was a pizza delivery man killed by a bomb fastened to his neck, purportedly under coercion to rob the bank.

After he was apprehended by the police for robbing the bank, the bomb exploded.

Diehl-Armstrong is already serving a seven- to 20-year state prison sentence for killing her boyfriend, James Roden, and stuffing his body in a freezer in mid-August 2003, the Times-News said.