PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) Authorities say a 25-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to charges arising from a string of jewelry store heists across the South, including one in Dawsonville in August 2015.
Abigail Lee Kemp waived her right to trial in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina when she accepted a plea deal Wednesday in federal court in Panama City, Florida, local news organizations are reporting.
She has already pleaded guilty to conspiring with three men in the robbery of a Panama City Beach jewelry store, the reports say. Arrested last January, she was charged in a string of robberies spanning a 10-month period.
Kemp and her co-conspirators robbed the Zales store at North Georgia Premium Outlets on Georgia 400 the morning of August 5, 2015. The thieves zip-tied the store employees and got away with an undisclosed amount of jewelry in the heist.
Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 13.
The News Herald (http://bit.ly/2hz4y1U ) reports she faces up to 20 years for each of six counts of interfering with commerce and could face a life sentence for brandishing a firearm during store robberies.
