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The Seattle Police Department report they broke up a murder-for-hire plot being organized by an inmate out of the King County Jail. (Image courtesy Seattle Police Department)

Seattle police break up murder-for-hire plot

BY Jamie Skorheim  on January 30, 2013 @ 3:13 pm (Updated: 4:03 pm - 1/30/13 )

The Seattle Police Department report they broke up a murder-for-hire plot being organized by a King County Jail inmate.

Police say the inmate, a felon caught earlier this month with guns, cash, and a fake police badge, put out a hit on a man he believed to be a police informant.

The man orchestrating the hit reportedly had plans on how he wanted the intended victim killed "wet him with gasoline, dry him with a match," and had drawn up maps of the victim's house to aid the man he'd contacted to carry out the hit.

A soon-to-be-released inmate and another 33-year-old man on the outside were meant to take care of the killing. But the inmate approached to carry out the plot instead provided all the information to authorities.

Upon his release, police followed the inmate to a meeting with the 33-year-old man on the outside. The 33-year-old reportedly gave him a gun and they talked over the killing plans.

SWAT officers then moved in and arrested the 33-year-old man and booked him into the King County Jail for Solicitation and Conspiracy to Commit Murder 1. The 48-year-old inmate that allegedly hatched the plot, still behind bars, was also charged in the plot.

The police say those responsible will be held accountable.

Jamie Skorheim, MyNorthwest.com Editor
Whether it's floating on Green Lake, eating shrimp tacos at Agua Verde, or taking weekend drives out to the Cascades, she loves to enjoy the Pacific Northwest lifestyle as much as humanly possible.
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  • Moondoggie wrote...
    I ask my wife to please
    January 30, 2013 3:46 pm
    Do the deed herself if she ever gets tired of me. I feel so bad for guys when their wives get busted for hiring an undercover FBI man to kill her husband. At least if she does it herself, I won’t be around to hear people talk about how bad a husband I must have been that she felt the need to kill me. You know the average suburban housewife just doesn’t have the street sense to find a real hit-man. She puts the word out to her son’s friend who once spent a weekend in the county lock-up. He tells her he knows a guy who knows a guy, and before you know it, she sitting at a seedy bar talking to a grubby 25 year old with a mullet who is 6 month out of the FBI Academy.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Ha,ha,ha,
    January 30, 2013 6:21 pm
    That pretty funny Moondoggie,lol.
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  • CH wrote...
    there it is again a
    January 30, 2013 3:57 pm
    gun
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  • WAmovesRight wrote...
    I know...
    January 30, 2013 5:03 pm
    ... I'm convinced MyNW staff do this stuff just to mess with us. :)

    Crazy thing is... the dude was hired to burn him alive... not shoot him. Why not use a match?

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  • Ernie in the East wrote...
    stop giving guns a bad rap
    January 30, 2013 5:56 pm
    Enough MyNorthwest! In the murder for hire plot it was the gasoline and matches NOT the gun that were to be the "bad guys." But no, you had to bring the gun into the picture. Guns don't kill, people kill. Why can't some people get that through their skulls, people kill people; inanimate objects used to perpetrate crimes had no choice in the matter.
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  • CH wrote...
    Guns don't kill
    January 30, 2013 6:54 pm
    bullets do[10 in clip]. 9 times out of 10 republicans will take Guns over Kids safety.
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  • Derrol_o wrote...
    "republicans will take guns over kids safety"
    January 31, 2013 2:41 am
    You forgot to mention that libs will sacrifice kids' safety for gun control when the psychotic maniac busts into their home and they have no way to defend against it. A sign in the house saying "Gun-free Zone" just isn't gonna cut it.
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  • CH wrote...
    Derrol_o when was the last time a psychotic maniac busts into a home ONLY_ to kill everyone in the home?
    January 31, 2013 3:16 am
    share the link.
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