Remember the woman who found a finger in her bowl of Wendy's chili back in 2005?
On Tuesday, the con artist returned to court for another scam-this time, it concerned a shooting that involved her son, and it landed her in prison for the next two years.
47-year-old Anna Ayala was sentenced to jail time after she hid the fact that her son, Guadalupe "Junior" Reyes, had shot himself in the ankle by accident with a gun he was not supposed to have because he was on parole for a felony burglary conviction, Mercury News reported.
Ayala kept the Oct. 21 shooting under wraps; mother and son told authorities that two men-including someone with whom they apparently had beef-were responsible for the shooting.
After police investigated further and interrogated the perplexed suspect, they realized they'd been scammed.
Reyes also received a sentencing of two years in a state prison. He and his mother will be formally sentenced in September, but until then, they will stay in Santa Clara County jail on bail for $150,000 each.
The San Jose, Calif. woman pled no contest to being an accessory to a felony, filing a fake police report, and being a felon carrying a firearm, which was added onto the conviction because she aided her son in disposing of the gun.
Ayala first gained notoriety in 2005, when she found a human finger in the bowl of chili she was eating at Wendy's in San Jose, Calif.
Wendy's looked into the situation, initially thinking that the finger had somehow made its way into the food from a mishap in the factories. But they could find no evidence that the finger had come from the inside, and hired a private investigator to search more deeply.
It turned out that the finger belonged to a friend of Ayala, an acquaintance of the con woman's husband who had lost his digit in an industrial accident.
Crafty Ayala took the finger and plopped it into her cardboard cup of chili. She got four years in prison for that scam.
Wendy's said that it lost around $2.5 million in sales because of the hoax, CBS reported in 2009.
