Soldier in S. Korea suspected in plot to kill

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Soldier in S. Korea suspected in plot to kill
By T.D. Flack, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, November 19, 2008

SEOUL — The U.S. military is working with civilian law enforcement officials to transfer a soldier from South Korea to the United States after a federal jury indicted him and two women for allegedly plotting to murder his wife.

Spc. Michael Andrew Crawford, working with the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Suwon Air Base, is still with his unit and is restricted to base, according to 8th Army officials. He is not being held in pretrial confinement.

Crawford, Tonia Rene Mullins and Regina Hercules were charged by the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Oklahoma with "Conspiracy and Use of Interstate Commerce Facilities in the Commission of Murder-For-Hire," according to a Sept. 26 U.S. Department of Justice news release.

In the release, U.S. Attorney Sheldon J. Sperling said the charges stemmed from a joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Sperling said the Ardmore Police Department learned Mullins, 32, was seeking a hit man to kill Crawford’s wife.


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