Jessica Sledge will see the prison cell from the inside for the next ten years for paying $10K in bitcoin to an assassin who was meant to kill her husband.
The US Department of Justice sentenced the 40-year-old resident of Pelahatchie, Mississippi – Jessica Sledge – to the statutory maximum of 10 years in Federal Prison. In 2021, the woman hired a “hitman” and paid him $10,000 worth of bitcoin to murder her husband.
Aware of Sledge’s intentions, an undercover police officer contacted her, identifying himself as the “hitman” she appointed with the task. Following a series of recorded conversations, she confirmed the crypto transaction and its purpose. Thanks to the accurate operation of the American authorities, the intended victim remained “ultimately unharmed.”two other individuals for crimes related to digital assets. In 2017, Jeremy McAlpine and Zachary Matar established Dropil Inc – a Belize-based company that provides cryptocurrency investment services. The firm also issued its own tokens – DROPs.
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