Last to be sentenced in UW horticulture center arson given 4 years in prison
A California violin teacher was sentenced this morning to four years in prison for her role in the $6 million arson at the University of Washington鈥檚 Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001.
Briana Waters, 36, who was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, was given credit for 37 months and will serve the remainder in a federal prison, possibly near her home in California. Both the defense and federal prosecutors had recommend the four-year sentence. Waters may be eligible to serve her last six months in a halfway house
Waters is the last member of a group who called themselves 鈥淭he Family鈥 to be sentenced for the UW firebombing. Earlier this year, her onetime boyfriend Justin Solondz, 32, was sentenced to six years in prison.