SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16 – Superior Court Judge William H. Lally sentenced Priscilla Cooper, 28, and Joseph Garcia, 54, to terms in state prison Tuesday for a series of Sacramento area robberies committed during two weeks in August.

Cooper received seven years in state prison for the robberies. She pleaded guilty Nov. 26 to five robberies committed from Aug. 16 to Aug. 26 and to using a gun in one of them. She was sentenced to the California Institution for Women at Frontera.

Garcia, who pleaded guilty to seven counts of robbery and admitted using a gun in the robberies, received a total of 12 years in state prison. The admission of gun use adds an additional year to the terms. Garcia was sent to the California Medical Facility at Vacaville.

In return for the guilty pleas, additional charges against the pair were dropped by the district attorney’s office.

The two robbed the Rainbow Bakery Thrift Store in Sacramento and the Rainbow Earth Grain Thrift Store in Citrus Heights on Aug. 16; the Fashion Den Beauty Salon and the Foothill Plaza Beauty Salon on Aug. 25; and Mei’s Beauty Salon or Aug. 26, according to court records. Garcia was arrested after a solo robbery of Beauty Vision Beauty Salon on Aug. 29, and Cooper was arrested in September. Only Garcia pleaded guilty to the Aug. 28 robbery of Bob Beauty Salon, according to records.

Cooper was convicted and went to state prison in 1973 for being an accessory after the fact in connection with the murder of Lauren Willett in a Stockton house occupied by Charles Manson followers. Cooper has contended her association with the Manson family is coincidental, according to the probation officer’s report.