CINCINNATI – A woman accused of beating her 86-year-old grandmother to death and stealing her TV to sell it for drug money was indicted on Thursday on aggravated murder and other charges in southwest Ohio.
The grandmother, Mary Muha, was found dead at her home in Washington Township, a Dayton suburb, on Dec. 20. The indictment indicates she died between Dec. 16 and Dec. 20, prosecutor's spokesman Greg Flannagan said.
Aisha Sanders sold her grandmother's TV to get the money for drugs and took her grandmother's car, prosecutors said. Authorities found Sanders on Dec. 21 in Preble County in her grandmother's car, which had run out of gas, they said.
"The defendant robbed and killed her own elderly grandmother, in order to obtain money to buy illegal drugs," prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. said in a news release.
A Montgomery County grand jury in Dayton indicted Sanders on one count of aggravated murder with prior calculation and design and one count of aggravated murder during the commission of an aggravated robbery, prosecutors said. Sanders also was indicted on two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of tampering with evidence in the slaying of her grandmother, they said.
Sanders, 24, remained in jail Thursday with her bail set at $1 million and couldn't be reached for comment. Her attorney, Michael Pentecost, did not promptly return a telephone call to his office.
An arraignment hearing has been scheduled for Sanders for Jan. 3 in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.
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