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| Inmate charged in plot to kill judge |
| By Lexington Herald-Leader |
| Published: 06/13/2005 |
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A Pulaski County, Ky., man serving time for trying to hire someone to kill his son was charged last week with plotting to kill a federal judge. Chalmer "Chuck" Hayes is the second 70-year-old inmate in the past two months charged with plotting to kill an employee of the federal government while behind bars in a Lexington federal prison. Anthony "Tony" Erpenbeck, a 70-year-old Cincinnati man, was indicted in April on charges that he conspired to kill two officers of the federal court and kidnap family members of a third. Hayes was just weeks away from being released from prison when federal authorities got wind of his plans, according to a complaint filed yesterday. Both Erpenbeck and Hayes were housed at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington when they launched the alleged plots, according to court documents. According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Lexington yesterday, Hayes tried to hire a fellow inmate to kill U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Coffman. "Hayes directed the cooperating witness to shoot Judge Coffman between the eyes with a .22 automatic as she was getting out of her car at her home, or in the parking lot of the United States's courthouse in London," wrote FBI Agent David W. Potts in an affidavit. Coffman oversaw Hayes' 1997 murder-for-hire trial. Hayes was convicted of paying an Alabama FBI agent who pretended to be a hitman $100 in expenses to kill his son, who lived in Louisville at the time. Coffman sentenced Hayes to 10 years. He was scheduled to be released Tuesday, according to the affidavit filed yesterday. On June 1, Potts interviewed a cooperating witness at the Federal Medical Center who told Potts that Hayes solicited him to kill Coffman. The informant agreed to record a conversation between the two men earlier this week. |
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