Man convicted of murder-for-hire conspiracy

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A Silver Spring resident was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to murder his boyfriend as part of a scheme to reap $400,000 in accidental death insurance.

Erik Collins, 44, faces up to 20 years in prison for separately asking two District men to kill his live-in boyfriend, 22-year-old Lorenzo Boone. He was arrested in September, after one of the men solicited for the murder contacted police.

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