The Idaho teenager who strapped a fake bomb to her leg and held up a Kaysville bank in April will spend about two months in the Davis County Jail.
Amy Jo Woods, 18, was sentenced to 90 days in jail Tuesday by 2nd District Judge Rodney S. Page, who also gave her credit for the 37 days she spent in jail before posting bond.Woods pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony in the April 21 incident and faced up to 15 years in prison.
Since her arrest she has attended Alcoholics Anonymous almost daily and has worked and cared for her son, according to her defense attorney, Laura Thompson.
Woods, originally from Preston, Idaho, has been living with her grandparents in Bountiful since her release from jail.
Woods was living in Logan with her fiance in April when she went into the First Security Bank in Kaysville and told employees a man had abducted her 18-month-old son, strapped a bomb to her leg and demanded $65,000 in cash for his release.
The bank employees notified police and gave Woods some money. Police stopped her as she drove away, exposing the story as a hoax and the bomb as a fake.
Woods was charged with aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony, and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in a plea negotiation. Police said the robbery was an attempt to raise cash to get out of debt.
Thompson, citing the improvements Woods has made in her life and a clean record before the robbery, asked for a 45-day jail term or inpatient drug treatment as an alternative.
But Page went with the 90 days recommended by Adult Probation and Parole in a pre-sentence report, noting it is a significant reduction from the life in prison sentence she faced on the original charge.
"You went into a bank, pretended to have a bomb and obtained money," Page told Woods.
Page did reduce her fine from $10,000 to $300.