Accountant pleads guilty to murder-for-hire plot involving dark web and Bitcoin

Tampa accountant was charged with trying to hire someone to kill the wife of an ex-boyfriend

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 11:21 a.m. January 20, 2022
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FILE: 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
FILE: 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
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TAMPA — DeAnna Stinson, a Tampa accountant charged with trying to hire a hitman on the dark web and paying him with bitcoin, has pled guilty in federal court.

 

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