Wife of LI pharmacy suspect pleads not guilty

LONG ISLAND

Four people died in the Father's Day prescription drug robbery in /*Medford*/ on /*Long Island*/.

/*Melinda Brady*/ now faces a first-degree robbery charge, which carries up to 25 years in prison if she's convicted. She had previously been charged with third-degree robbery.

The judge ordered her held without bail on Tuesday.

She'd been jailed on $750,000 bail since she and her husband were arrested last month. Brady said in a police statement that she and her husband, /*David Laffer*/, plotted the robbery, but she did not know the plan involved killing.

Laffer faces first-degree murder charges.

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