Accountant arrested in murder-for-hire scheme

TAMPA — A 50-year-old Tampa accountant has been arrested by federal agents and charged with trying to hire a hitman on the dark web and paying him with bitcoin.

The woman, DeAnna Marie Stinson, was arrested after FBI agents were able to trace her conversations and transactions — first on a website and then with an undercover agent posing as a hitman, according to a statement. Stinson has been charged with soliciting a crime of violence and murder-for-hire.