Man pleads guilty in murder-for-hire plot, planned to feed victim to hogs

A antheral has pleaded blameworthy to a murder-for-hire crippled successful which helium planned to provender the victim's remains to hogs. Jeal Sutherland, 57, pleaded blameworthy to utilizing an interstate commerce installation successful a murder-for-hire strategy targeting a antheral who lives successful the Albany, New York, country — a complaint for which helium could look up to 10 years successful prison.

Sutherland entered the plea Wednesday successful national tribunal successful bluish New York.

Court documents said Sutherland attempted to put the execution of a antheral who is the begetter of a kid with Sutherland's ex-partner. As portion of his plot, Sutherland agreed to forgive the indebtedness of the idiosyncratic hired to bash the killing. Sutherland besides contacted a idiosyncratic who helium believed was a hog farmer, intending to wage him for the usage of his workplace to dispose of the victim's remains by feeding them to the hogs. 

But according to tribunal documents, the husbandman was really an undercover FBI agent. Sutherland was arrested successful precocious January and the intended unfortunate wasn't hurt. 

Prior to his arrest, Sutherland had besides hired a antithetic antheral to enactment a dormant Canada goose with a threatening missive successful its beak connected the doorstep of the intended victim's mother, the Justice Department said.

"Jeal Sutherland hatched a vicious crippled to termination a romanticist rival and intimidate his victim's family," United States Attorney John A. Sarcone said in a statement. 

In summation to situation time, Sutherland could look a good of up to $250,000 and supervised merchandise of up to 3 years. He is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected September 22, 2025. 

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