Woman Who Set Up Marietta Man for Robbery Sentenced

An Atlanta woman who used her feminine charm to get inside a man’s apartment so that two of her accomplices could pull off a robbery will be spending 20 years in jail, the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.

Charis Ivory Boveland, 25, was convicted of armed robbery, aggravated battery and false imprisonment in May for her participation in a Dec. 18, 2013 robbery at an apartment complex on Windcliff Drive.

Prosecutors proved Boveland went to a man’s apartment after chatting with him online for some time and began playing video games with him. The victim noticed Boveland sending out a large number of text messages. The victim went to the back of the apartment; when he returned to the front, Boveland was with two men.

The men tied up the victim, beat him with a tire iron, and stole his television, laptop, cell phone, gaming system, a .9-mm handgun and cash, all the while being assisted by Boveland, prosecutors proved. All three then fled the apartment together.

“The defendant sweet-talked her way into the victim’s apartment, knowing that she was setting him up to be robbed,” ADA Theresa Schiefer said. “And while she may not have been holding the tire iron, she was an equal participant in the attack that left the victim beaten and bloodied in his own apartment.”

Cobb County police are still looking for the two men who participated in the incident, according to the DA’s Office.