Woman Gets Life Sentence in Fatal Robbery
A Pomona woman convicted of scaring an elderly woman to death was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday, the district attorney’s office announced.
Convicted in May of first-degree murder, robbery and burglary in the Nov. 29, 1994, death of 86-year-old Bertha Kavanaugh, Sylvia Arizmendi will not have the option of parole, district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.
Kavanaugh, who had slightly hardened arteries and a satchel filled with $20 bills, died of a stress-induced heart attack during a home invasion robbery. Arizmendi was found guilty of murder under the state’s felony murder rule because Kavanaugh died during a felonious crime.
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