PRISON FOR POT SHOT SHOOTOUT

A Los Angeles gang member who pleaded no contest to attempted murder for a botched armed robbery at an east Bakersfield pot shop has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Marvell Carruthers was wounded in a shootout with a security guard last year at the Peace and Medicine Marijuana Dispensary on Niles Street.

Co-defendant Robert Williams got seven years in prison.

Kelli Pierce