A husband and wife team who robbed a Burlington business will spend nine years in prison.

Jeremy and Kimberly McCann, 29 and 28 respectively, both of 8029 County Road 107, Lot 4-E, Proctorville, each pleaded guilty in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court Wednesday to two counts of robbery, two counts of kidnapping and tampering with evidence.

Judge Charles Cooper sentenced both to serve a total of nine years each in a penitentiary with credit for time served.

The couple held up the First American Cash Advance with a BB gun last November.

Also in court Wednesday, a former Ironton Police Department dispatcher pleaded guilty and was sentenced for drug charges.

Tina White, 42, of 244 Delaware St., Ironton, 42, pleaded guilty to a four-count indictment that included three counts of complicity to aggravated trafficking in drugs and one count of aggravated trafficking in drugs.

Judge D. Scott Bowling sentenced White to five years in prison and ordered her to pay a $20,000 fine.

White’s husband and co-defendant, Gregory White, had previously been sentenced to five years in prison for three counts of aggravated drug trafficking and one count of complicity to aggravated drug trafficking.

White was a 22-year employee of the City of Ironton and most recently served as a dispatcher for the police department.

In an unrelated case, Bowling sentenced Scott R. McDonald, 24, of 3538 County Road 31, Chesapeake, to four and a half years in prison.

Following a jury trial Monday, McDonald was found guilty of failure to comply with the order of signal of a police officer, a third-degree felony.

Assistant Prosecutor Brigham Anderson said that McDonald, who was intoxicated, led officers on a chase on U.S. 52 at a speed of 112 miles per hour. The man exited at Coal Grove and drove through Ironton while running stop signals and only stopped when his tire blew, Anderson said.

McDonald apologized for his actions.

“I am really sorry for what I did,” McDonald said. “I know what I did was wrong. I’m not against the law.”

McDonald told his defense attorney, John Kehoe, that he wants to appeal the judge’s sentence.

Bowling appointed attorney David Reid Dillon to represent McDonald for the appeal.