in a july 2007 indictment, federal prosecutors said that wells had been involved in the planning of the botched bank robbery. two of his alleged co-conspirators, marjorie diehl-armstrong and kenneth barnes, were indicted. in 2008, u.s. district judge sean j. mclaughlin sentenced barnes to 45 years in federal prison. two years later, diehl-armstrong was also found guilty and, in 2011, was sentenced to life in prison, where she died from cancer in 2017.