SAN DIEGO -- Amy Jo Mitchell, 33, of Fallbrook was sentenced to two years in prison for burglary and being an accessory to murder in connection with the death of her grandmother, who was found stuffed inside a dresser, 10News reported Thursday. Vista Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein, who gave Mitchell the maximum sentence allowed, said he still thought she got away with murder.

Mitchell, who had withdrawn about $70,000 from her grandmother's bank accounts after her boyfriend strangled the woman, pleaded guilty on April 21, to felony charges of being an accessory after the murder and burglary.

The prosecutor in the case said after Mitchell's Jan. 21 arraignment that the defendant and her boyfriend, Jeff Nolen, had a domestic violence incident that was falsely reported to authorities last Aug. 23.

During an argument, Nolen drove away with Mitchell hanging onto the hood of his vehicle, causing her to fall off and seriously injure her hip, the prosecutor said.

Mitchell went to a hospital and reported she had been struck by a vehicle while getting mail from her mailbox, Watanabe said. He said the defendant filed a false police report, claiming her injuries were from a hit-and-run driver.

Mitchell told her 74-year-old grandmother, Shirley Beggs, the truth about what happened and the defendant believed her relative called Child Protective Services about the matter, which launched an investigation against Mitchell and Nolen, the prosecutor said.

Beggs was last seen alive last Aug. 29.

Mitchell said Nolen came home early on Aug. 30, sweating and out of breath.

On Sept. 3, Nolen called his stepfather and told him that he messed up and "killed Amy's grandmother," according to Watanabe.

Beggs' decomposing body was found the next day in her apartment in Fallbrook, stuffed into a dresser that was lying on its side and taped shut with masking tape.

On Sept. 5, Nolen's body was found inside his car in Riverside County. He apparently committed suicide.

Mitchell told homicide detectives that she should have known that her grandmother was dead in the apartment, the prosecutor said.

On Sept. 3, Mitchell withdrew $500 from her joint account with her grandmother, Watanabe said.

Later that day, the defendant tried to obtain a $60,937 cashier's check from her grandmother's account, using a Power of Attorney, but the bank mistakenly made the check out to Beggs, Watanabe said.

That same day, Mitchell also entered a Pacific Western Bank and cashed a check dated Aug. 29 from Beggs to the defendant for $9,310, the prosecutor said.

A few minutes later, Mitchell went back to Bank of America to have it correct the payee on the cashier's check, and it was made payable to Mitchell, according to Watanabe.

The prosecutor said there is no physical evidence that Mitchell participated in her grandmother's killing, only that she knew about it after the fact and prevented police from finding the body.