The mastermind of a group that kidnapped a bank manager and forced her to rob her bank while they held her children hostage was sentenced to 19 years in prison.

Thirty-seven-old Joseph Franklin Brown Jr., of Great Mills, Md., was sentenced in federal court Tuesday in Greenbelt by U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow.

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