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Woman charged with plotting to have ex-husband killed
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A woman wanted in connection with a plot to kill her ex-husband in Tennessee was arrested by agents with the U.S. Marshals Service Western Pennsylvania Task Force in Westmoreland County Tuesday morning.
Lisa Michelle Cleary, 42, was being sought by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Authorities said she conspired with her boyfriend to pay someone to kill her ex-husband in Meigs County, Tenn., and gave an undercover agent $15,000 and a gun to get the job done.
Ms. Cleary was arrested at a home on Tudor Drive in Rostraver at around 7:30 a.m. by agents with the task force, a coalition of U.S. marshals and state law enforcement.
She was arraigned before District Judge James Albert and was being held at the Westmoreland County Jail on $100,000 bond.
First Published August 22, 2012 12:00 am
