BOSTON (AP) — A man who tried to pay a gang member $2,000 to kill his estranged wife, mother-in-law and 9-year-old daughter pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder-for-hire charges in a deal that could send him to federal prison for 12 years.
John Orlowski, 49, was charged in May after the plot was uncovered when the mother of the gang member called the FBI.
During a change-of-plea hearing in U.S. District Court, Orlowski acknowledged asking Michael Reed, a self-described member of the Crips gang, to kill his family.
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