Feds say an Illinois man who admitted to hiring a hitman to kill his wife and her family in exchange for drugs has been given a sentence of more than 18 years in jail.
As of February 13, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana said that John Gierek, 35, had pleaded guilty to two counts of using a place of interstate trade to commit a murder-for-hire. After Gierek’s term, he will be free on supervised release for two years.
In return for a lot of drugs and some forgiveness on a drug debt, Gierek set up a friend to kill several people between October 2023 and March 2024, according to the release.
WFFT said Gierek told him to “kill his estranged wife, her mother, grandmother, and her 8-year-old son.” The news source says that Gierek planned to give him four 8-balls of cocaine and forgive a $2,000 bill as payment for the killings.
A criminal charge seen by WFFT says he also wanted the informant to kidnap the friend of his wife so he could rape and kill her.
WANE says the guy he hired told the FBI about Gierek and “secretly recorded” conversations with him over five months in which they talked about plans to kill Gierek’s ex-wife and three of her family members.
The report also says that Gierek gave the task man tape, pepper spray, and a taser.
According to the release, the case was looked into by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with help from cops in Indiana and Illinois.
From the lawsuit, WFFT learned that the informant knew Gierek for more than four years, bought cocaine from him, and shared a love of snakes with him.
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