WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

WASHINGTON -- Ashley Gause, 33, of the District of Columbia, was sentenced today to 140 months in federal prison for her role as a co-leader of a violent multi-state robbery crew that targeted more than a dozen pharmacies and cellphone stores in the District, Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

"Ashley Gause and her co-conspirators participated in an extended campaign of violence that caused terror without any regard for their victims," said U.S. Attorney Pirro. "They treated these pharmacies and cellphone stores as their own personal cash machines, g...