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SALT LAKE CITY — A Price woman has admitted in federal court that she acted as the getaway driver during the robbery of a Carbon County grocery store.
Jennifer Meradee Tryon, 43, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to one count of Hobbs Act robbery. In exchange for Tryon's plea, federal prosecutors asked Judge Dale Kimball to dismiss one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
In court records filed as part of the plea agreement, Tryon said she drove Dominic Mathew Martinez to the Smith's Food & Drug store at 1075 E. Main in Price on Nov. 26 for the purpose of robbing the store.
Martinez, 29, showed a clerk at the store's service desk a handgun and gave her a note demanding money, according to charging documents. The clerk handed over the money and Martinez left the store but forgot to take the demand note with him, Price police said. Officers collected the forgotten scrap of paper and sent it to the state crime lab where technicians matched three fingerprints on the note to Martinez.
Martinez pleaded guilty in September to brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and agreed to pay nearly $2,200 in restitution to Smith's. One count of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm were dismissed in exchange for Martinez's plea.
Martinez is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 24. He faces up to life in prison with a minimum mandatory sentence of seven years behind bars.
Tryon's sentencing hearing is set for Dec. 16. She faces up to 20 years in prison; however, as part of the plea deal prosecutors have agreed to ask for no more than three years in prison.
