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Woman in $17 million heist gets sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison

Associated Press

A woman who bought herself breast implants and a $635,000 house with loot from a $17 million Loomis, Fargo & Co. heist was sentenced yesterday to more than 7 1/2 years in prison.

Michele Chambers was one of 21 defendants in the 1997 robbery of a vault at the armored car company - one of the biggest heists of its kind in U.S. history. Twenty people pleaded guilty; one was tried and convicted.

Chambers' husband, Steven Chambers, was one of the ringleaders along with David Scott Ghantt, a former Loomis employee. Chambers was sentenced earlier to more than 11 years in prison.

Within a month of the robbery, the Chamberses moved out of their mobile home. When agents raided their luxurious new home, they found such things as a large oil painting of a dog in a military uniform and more than $720,000 in cash in a desk.

U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen sentenced Chambers to seven years and eight months behind bars and ordered her to repay $4.8 million.