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An Ashland teen will spend no time in jail for helping her boyfriend rob a bank. Jori Lace Beveridge, 18, was sentenced Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court to two years' probation for her role as a look-out during a robbery of Ashland's U.S. Bank in December 2002. She pleaded guilty to a charge of third-degree robbery on Nov. 25. The more serious crime of first-degree robbery covered by the state's minimum sentencing law, Measure 11, was dismissed in exchange for her plea. Beveridge dodged a minimum prison sentence of seven and a half years by agreeing to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their case against 20-year-old Nathaniel Bosworth, also of Ashland, said Matt Chancellor, deputy district attorney for Jackson County. Although she was a 17-year-old high school junior at the time of the robbery, Beveridge would have been tried as an adult under Measure 11. Bosworth pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of armed bank robbery and one count of carrying a firearm during a crime of violence. Federal prosecutors agreed to dismiss additional charges linked to a November 2002 robbery of Klamath First Federal bank in Ashland. Bosworth is set to hear his sentence on June 16. The maximum penalty for armed bank robbery is 25 years in prison and a & 36;250,000 fine. The maximum penalty for the firearms charge is seven years in prison and a & 36;250,000 fine. Bosworth and Beveridge must pay back & 36;11,522 stolen from the banks, Chancellor said.