A Delaware woman was sentenced to six years in prison for traveling to Maryland to solicit a murder-for-hire.
U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett on Friday also ordered Lucille Thorn, 50, of Wilmington, to have no contact with the intended victim or the victim?s family during three years of supervised release after she serves her sentence.
From November to December 2006, Thorn solicited an individual ? who was a confidential informant ? to murder her stepmother, prosecutors said.
After meeting with the informant, Thorn met with an undercover agent posing as a hit man Nov. 22, 2006, at the Maryland House rest area on Interstate 95 in Harford.
Thorn told the hit man she wanted to kill her stepmother, but could not pay him in advance, prosecutors said.
She said she would pay the hit man with money to be extorted from her stepmother before her death, according to the U.S. Attorney?s Office.
Thorn was told in December at the rest area that her stepmother was dead and then was arrested, prosecutors said.
