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Prison inmate charged with trying to arrange slaying
DAYTON — An inmate who started a two-year prison stretch last month has been indicted on charge of conspiracy to commit murder.
The grand jury handed down the indictment on Tuesday, Dec. 1, which was Robert Rose’s 27th birthday.
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. He is still at the correctional reception center, where inmates are first sent before they are assigned to specific institutions.
According to the indictment, Rose was incarcerated in the Montgomery County 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.
A warrant has been issued to transport Rose to the county jail so that he can be arraigned on Dec. 15, according to Montgomery County Common Pleas Court records.
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