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A Utah woman was sentenced to prison Wednesday for her involvement in a 2011 home break-in and robbery that left a Sanpete County couple dead.
Angela Marie Hill, also known as Angela Atwood, 31, pleaded guilty in March to second-degree felony burglary of a dwelling, along with a third-degree felony charge of attempted robbery.
A 6th District Court judge sentenced her to a one-to-15 year prison term for the burglary charge, and a zero-to-five year term for the third-degree felony count. The sentences were ordered to run concurrent to one another, according to prosecutors, but consecutive to a 30-year prison term she is serving in Nevada for her role in a botched carjacking after her co-defendant, Logan McFarland, shot and killed Leroy and Dorothy Ann Fullwood in their Mount Pleasant home.
In January, McFarland, 29, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated murder for killing the 70-year-old man and 69-year-old woman and was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life-without-parole at the Utah State Prison.
Hill will serve her prison time in a Nevada correctional facility, according to Sanpete County Attorney Brody Keisel.
Prosecutors did not allege that Hill was inside the Fullwood home when McFarland killed the couple, but said she played a role in the deaths because she drove McFarland to the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. She also was accused of picking up McFarland after he fatally shot the couple and ransacked their Mount Pleasant home on Dec. 29, 2011.
Keisel said Hill apologized in court on Wednesday, and blamed her drug use for the crimes.
On Dec. 31, 2011 — the same day the Fullwoods were found dead in their home — police say McFarland and Hill tried to carjack a woman's car outside a casino in West Wendover, Nev. The victim fought off Hill and sped away, but was shot and wounded in the head.
The couple stole two other vehicles and led police on a high-speed chase in the days that followed. They were eventually captured in the Nevada desert after a rancher spotted them walking while checking on cattle from an airplane.
Hill was given a 30-year prison sentence in Nevada for her role in the botched carjacking, while McFarland was ordered by Nevada authorities to spend 56 years behind bars for his crimes there.