SAN JOSE -- A local woman who served four years in prison for the notorious severed-finger-in-Wendy's-chili scam will be sent back to the state clink for a new hoax -- this time, for two years.

Anna Ayala, 47, picked up the new prison term by hiding the fact that her son had accidentally shot himself in the ankle with a gun he was not allowed to have because he was on parole.

Instead of coming clean about the Oct. 21 shooting, Ayala and her son, Guadalupe "Junior" Reyes, 26, blamed it on two men, including someone they apparently didn't like, prompting police to interrogate the mystified suspect.

Reyes also will get two years in state prison when mother and son are formally sentenced in September. He
Anna Ayala departs from her court appearance in which she didn't enter a plea on Feb. 22, 2013 at Santa Clara County Hall of Justice in San Jose. Anna Ayala, the woman behind the notorious 2005 hoax involving a segment of human finger placed in a bowl of fast-food chili, was arrested Thursday on charges of being an accessory to a felony and filing a false police report. Guadalupe "Junior" Reyes has a previous burglary conviction, Santa Clara County prosecutor Bret Wasley said, and is not allowed to possess a gun. He told officers he was approached by a pair and shot "for no rhyme or reason," Wasley said.

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