Soldier in murder-for-hire case back in U.S.

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Soldier in murder-for-hire case back in U.S.
Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, December 3, 2008

CAMP RED CLOUD, South Korea — A South Korea-based U.S. soldier who allegedly plotted his wife’s murder is now in custody in the States, 8th Army officials confirmed Monday.

Spc. Michael Andrew Crawford, of the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Suwon Air Base, was flown to San Francisco and arrested by U.S. marshals last week.

Crawford, 32, of Ada, Okla., has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit murder and using interstate commerce to plot a murder-for-hire, according to the Ada Evening News.

Crawford’s aunt, Regina Hercules, 42, and Tonia Rene Mullins, 32, have pleaded guilty to the same charges and face up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

"Mullins and Crawford intended to buy a house together with $250,000 they anticipated collecting from the victim’s life insurance policy," U.S. attorney Sheldon Sperling told the Ada newspaper in story Friday.


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