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Attempted contract murder leads to seven-year sentence
DAYTON — A former Montgomery County Jail inmate who tried to arrange a contract murder while he was in the jail was sentenced Monday, March 15, to seven years in prison.
Robert Rose, 27, pleaded guilty Feb. 22 to one count of conspiracy to commit murder. The sentence handed down Monday by Common Pleas Judge Connie S. Price is to be served consecutively to a two-year prison stretch Rose is serving for unrelated offenses.
The charge, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, was the only indicted charge.
According to the indictment, Rose was incarcerated in the jail between Sept. 14 and Oct. 20 when he solicited another inmate, Elmer Phillips, to kill another man. He offered Phillips $5,000, a car and a place to live, the indictment said.
Rose called the intended victim several times from the jail on Oct. 3 and left threatening messages for him, warning him to stay away from Rose’s girlfriend, the indictment said.
Phillips arranged for Rose to speak with an undercover detective posing as a hit man at the jail on Oct. 15. Rose offered the detective money and a car, and held up a piece of paper with the intended victim’s address, the indictment said.
On Oct. 20, Rose had a piece of paper in his jail cell with contact information for the “hit man,” the indictment said.
Rose was admitted to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction on Nov. 2 after he was convicted in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on charges of burglary and soliciting and on another burglary charge in Clark County Common Pleas Court.
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