LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas woman has been sentenced to one year in prison for lying to FBI agents during their investigation of her brother-in-law, a bank robbery suspect who killed himself and three members of his family last summer.
''This young lady seems to me to have a very hard time being truthful and honorable,'' Senior U.S. District Judge Lloyd George said Friday.
A federal jury convicted Seila Lim, 22, in March of two counts of making false statements, a felony.
George said the defendant has given him no indication that she feels contrite about her involvement in the case.
During Lim's trial, prosecutors told jurors Lim hampered the FBI investigation of two violent bank robberies and, later, of Timothy Blackburn's escape from the North Las Vegas Detention Center by giving false information when questioned by agents on two separate dates.
Blackburn, 26, escaped from the jail Aug. 11 with Sophia Lim, his 24-year-old wife, after the woman came to visit him at the facility.
Authorities caught up with Blackburn on Aug. 29 at a Budget Suites of America, where he was hiding out with his family.
Before he could be captured, Blackburn killed his wife, the couple's two young daughters and himself. Blackburn's wife was Seila Lim's sister.
George also ordered Seila Lim to pay a $3,000 fine.
