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Suspect writes to alleged victims offering to pay them not to testify
It would appear that a county jail resident had a letter delivered to two victims of his alleged crime offering to pay them if they didn’t show up at his trial later this month.
The letter surfaced when it was hand-delivered earlier this week by an unknown person to an address where one of the victims once lived.
In the signed, hand-written letter, the writer purports to be the man arrested for the armed robbery of the two victims. He claims he spent three years in prison, beginning when he was 16, and was recently released.
“Now I’m sitting in the County Jail facing 40 years and I do not know my brother and cousin was goin’ to rob you,” the letter reads.
The writer goes on to say two of his brothers have died, his mother is dying, and he has a child on the way.
“My life is in your hands,” the writer implores. “I want to see my baby being born and I want to spend the last days with my mom before she passes away, and I will pay you for not coming (to court) or if you do tell them it was not me, please and thank you.”
The resident found the letter folded up with no envelope in her mailbox. Neither of the victims had seen the letter, nor did the resident know how to contact them.
The purported writer was indicted in March on two counts of possessing a weapon while under disability, in this case his 2007 conviction as a juvenile involving an aggravated robbery. In late June, he was indicted on two counts of aggravated robbery — while armed with a handgun — involving the two victims.
No word whether authorities are considering any charges involving the letter he purportedly wrote.
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