Pa. collarbomb robbery suspect says she has cancer; att’y says too soon to predict trial delay

Pa. collarbomb robbery suspect says she has cancer

ERIE, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman awaiting trial on charges she masterminded a bank robbery plot that ended with a pizza deliveryman being killed by a bomb locked around his neck says she has cancer.

Sixty-one-year-old Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong is scheduled for trial Aug. 30. But she told the Erie Times-News from jail that she had a cancerous tumor removed from her neck last month and is awaiting test results to determine the extent of her illness.

Her attorney, Douglas Sughrue (suh-GROO’), confirmed her illness but says it’s too early to tell if her trial will be delayed as a result. He did not immediately return a call Monday from The Associated Press.

Sughrue wants the trial moved out of federal court in Erie because of intense publicity about the August 2003 robbery.

Information from: Erie Times-News, www.goerie.com