The getaway driver in a home-invasion robbery and slaying of a Vancouver man was sentenced this morning to 12 years in prison.
Clark County Superior Court Judge Roger Bennett gave Minna R. Long a harsher sentence than requested by the prosecution because she had three past robbery convictions and was initially charged with first-degree murder as an accomplice.
Deputy Prosecutor Kasey Vu had requested a 10-year sentence.
She pleaded guilty Aug. 4 to three counts of first-degree robbery.
“She got a tremendous break here,” Bennett said.
Long, who was released from jail on electric home confinement in August because she was expecting twins, was taken into custody immediately following the hearing.
She was to be one of four defendants sentenced today in connection to the Dec. 13, 2009, murder of Charles N. Moore at his home on St. James Road.
