Associated Press - November 20, 2009 12:14 PM ET

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - For robbing seven University of Arizona students during a March home invasion, a 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison.

Prosecutors asked Pima County Superior Court Judge Richard Fields to sentence Diamond J. Taylor to 7 1/2 years.

Defense attorney Richard Bock said the judge found mitigating factors existed.

Tucson police say Taylor and three other men walked in through the unlocked back door of a home in the 1200 block of East Grant Road just after midnight March 24.

6 of the seven residents were held at gunpoint while their home was ransacked. The suspects fled the house with a TV, laptop computers, cash and jewelry.

Earlier, the judge sentenced 18-year-old Alex Peter Lopez and 25-year-old Ronnie J. Anderson to three years in prison. A fourth man, 24-year-old Albert Bell, is serving two years.

Information from: Arizona Daily Star, http://www.azstarnet.com

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