Ex-Fugitive Gets Prison Term in ’70 Armory Theft
Longtime fugitive and ‘60s radical Katherine Ann Power was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison for her role in a 1970 theft at a National Guard armory.
The sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton is to be served at the same time as Power’s 8-to-12-year state prison sentence for a bank robbery in which a police officer was killed. Power drove a getaway car in the earlier crime.
Gorton also fined Power $10,000 for the armory theft, in which a pickup truck, blasting caps and ammunition were stolen.
“Regardless of any surrounding circumstances, personal or historical, I broke the law of the United States and I acknowledge that,” Power said. “I am deeply sorry for the damage my actions have caused. . . . I will continue to live my life as an act of contrition for that.”
Power, 44, surrendered in September after 23 years in hiding.
She was convicted of armed robbery in the Sept. 23, 1970, robbery at State Street Bank & Trust Co. in Brighton, Mass.
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