 Brandt and two others were arrested in Berkeley on March 31, 1972 and subsequently convicted, but Yoshimura evaded a police dragnet and fled California.She lived under an alias in New Jersey until 1974.In 1977 she was convicted of unlawful possession of explosives, of a machine gun, and of substances and materials with the intent to make destructive devices and explosives and sentenced to a one-to-fifteen year prison sentence.