A Newark woman who took part in a one-night armed robbery spree in Jersey City when she was 19 years old was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 12 years in prison.
Siobhan Chandler, 21, pleaded guilty in December to multiple robbery and weapons offenses for what authorities have described as four robberies and two shootings on Nov 14, 2021. She faced up to 20 years in prison. Rodney Williams, her accused conspirator, is awaiting trial.
Authorities have said Williams and Chandler robbed a deli on Danforth Avenue, a gas station on Garfield Avenue, supermarket on Communipaw Avenue and a fast food restaurant at Communipaw and Crescent avenues. Williams shot a gas station attendant and an employee at Crown Chicken, authorities have said.
At her detention hearing in 2021, Chandler’s attorney said Chandler told police she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, taken along on a crime spree unwillingly when all she wanted to do was go home.
In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Couty Judge Brian Martinotti sentenced Chandler to five years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger credited officers of the Jersey City Police Department, under the direction of Public Safety Director James Shea; and the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Prosecutor Esther Suarez, with the investigation leading to the sentencing. He also thanks the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
