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Monday, February 22, 2010
Murder-for-hire plot leads to guilty plea
DAYTON — A former Montgomery County Jail inmate, accused of trying arrange a contract murder from the jail, pleaded guilty Monday, Feb. 22, to one count of conspiracy to commit murder.
Robert Rose, 27, appeared before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Connie S. Price, who set sentencing for March 15. Rose is already serving a two-year prison stretch for unrelated offenses.
The charge, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, was the only indicted charge. There is no agreement on sentencing, Assistant County Prosecutor Tracey Ballard Tangeman told Price.
According to the indictment, Rose was incarcerated in the jail between Sept. 14 and Oct. 20 when he solicited another inmate, Elmer Phillips, to kill another man. He offered Phillips $5,000, a car and a place to live, the indictment said.
Rose called the intended victim several times from the jail on Oct. 3 and left threatening messages for him, warning him to stay away from Rose’s girlfriend, the indictment said.
Phillips arranged for Rose to speak with an undercover detective posing as a hit man at the jail on Oct. 15. Rose offered the detective money and a car, and held up a piece of paper with the intended victim’s address, the indictment said.
On Oct. 20, Rose had a piece of paper in his jail cell with contact information for the “hit man,” the indictment said.
Rose was admitted to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction on Nov. 2 after he was convicted in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on charges of burglary and soliciting and on another burglary charge in Clark County Common Pleas Court.
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