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SAN DIEGO (AP) _ A judge sentenced a Marine's ex-wife Monday to nearly 11 years in prison for a bungled plot to kill her former husband for insurance money.

Astrid K. Tepatti, 22, pleaded guilty earlier to attempted murder, which carried a maximum term of 20 years in prison. U.S. District Judge John A. Houston sentenced her to 131 months in federal prison.

Tepatti sneaked into her husband's home on the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base in January and fired a revolver at him, federal officials said. The bullet lodged in the sofa where Sgt. Stephen Tepatti was sleeping, but he was not hurt. Pieces of a potato, used as a makeshift silencer, went flying around the room.

Tepatti's lesbian lover, 21-year-old Ebony Wood, admitted making the silencer and driving Astrid Tepatti to the base. Wood said she had been promised proceeds from the husband's life insurance policy.

Wood, who also pleaded guilty to attempted murder, is scheduled to be sentenced in December.

The same day as the shooting, the women were arrested on an interstate about 150 miles east of San Diego, and a bag of ricin was found in the car. Tepatti and Woods had made the deadly poison from castor beans with the idea of killing Stephen Tepatti, according to court documents and authorities.

In late 2003, according to the FBI, the women tried to kill Tepatti by luring him to the beach and stabbing him in the neck.