THELOGICALINDIAN - A woman in Illinois is adverse up to 20 years in bastille for a Bitcoin murderforhire artifice she put in abode adjoin the wife of the man she had an activity with
Love can accomplish bodies do abhorrent things, abnormally back that adulation is directed at addition who is currently affiliated to addition else. Tina Jones, a 31-year-old woman in Illinois, has been arrested by badge and is actuality answerable in a murder-for-hire plot in which Bitcoin plays a part.
Tina Jones formed at the Loyola Medical Center with the affiliated man she had an activity with. Apparently, the man absitively to end the affair, jilting Jones. She did not booty attentive to this change in her accord status.
She absitively to appoint somebody to annihilate her ex-lover’s wife, so she went online to the Dark Web and came beyond Cosa Nostra International. As Robert Berlin, DuPage County State Attorney, notes:
Jones acclimated Bitcoin to pay for the annihilation attempt, and she capital her money’s worth. Robert Berlin adds:
Police in DuPage County, Illinois, got a tip about the murder-for-hire plot. The prosecutors say that the tip came from the 48 Hours TV appearance on CBS, which again led to a abounding investigation.
Tina Jones angry herself into the badge and appeared in cloister aftermost Wednesday. She was answerable with address of murder-for-hire, a felony, and bond was set at $250,000. Jones will arise in cloister afresh on May 15th. She faces up to 20 years in bastille if convicted.
Sadly, this is not the aboriginal time a being acclimated Bitcoin to appoint a analgesic to annihilation someone. Ross Ulbricht, the abettor of the abominable Silk Road, was answerable with crimes alignment from biologic trafficking and money bed-making to murder-for-hire. Although the closing allegation was alone from the indictment, accompanying affirmation still played a agency in sentencing. Last December, an Italian woman was bedevilled to six years in a Danish bastille for using Bitcoin to appoint addition to annihilate her boyfriend.
Naturally, the media enjoys arena up the cryptocurrency and Dark Web angle, but the absoluteness is that cryptocurrency is acclimated primarily in a acknowledged manner. A abstraction begin that less than 1% of all Bitcoin affairs were illicit.
Two added takeaways from this story. First, application cryptocurrency isn’t the wisest accommodation to appoint a assassin in best cases as you do leave a aisle on the blockchain. Second, conceivably it’s best not to accept an activity at all.
Why do you anticipate the woman approved to appoint a analgesic application Bitcoin? Did she appetite to abuse her ex-lover? Did she appetite him to appear aback to her, gluttonous comfort, afterwards his wife died in an “accident’ that befell her? Let us apperceive in the comments below.
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