State police at Tunkhannock said Michelle Lee Parkhurst, 37, of RR1, Box 220-A, Laceyville, is accused of criminal solicitation to commit homicide.
Police said she was taken into custody at her residence on March 1 along Canal Street in Laceyville, Wyoming County, after a month-long investigation into the solicitation to commit homicide toward a Pennsylvania State Police confidential informant.
During the investigation, Parkhurst met with an undercover state trooper on different occasions where she wanted the informant killed for setting up her husband, Hugh Parkhurst, police said.
According to police, Hugh Parkhurst was recently arrested by the state police for delivery of a controlled substance. On March 1, Michelle Parkhurst again met with the undercover state trooper and gave him U.S. currency along with directions to the informant's residence and again expressed interest in wanting the informant killed, police said.
Michelle Parkhurst was charged with one count of criminal solicitation to commit homicide and two counts of criminal conspiracy to solicit the commission of homicide. She was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge John Hovan, who set bail at $100,000. She was taken to Wyoming County Jail in lieu of bail. The Wyoming County District Attorney's office, the Troop "P" Tunkhannock Patrol Unit, and the Pennsylvania State Police Aviation Unit assisted.
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I really hope you are being sarcastic when you refer to this person as a poor soul.
She should be charged with solicitation of murder not homicide. To try to put a hit on someone she THINKS ratted her husband out is just plain nuts. If she didn't want her husband getting busted for drugs then there is a simple solution...don't do it. I, for one, am glad he's off the street and not selling drugs. I also don't think $100,000.00 bail is near enough, but then again a drug addict reliefer probably won't come up with that. Let's all hope not.
Craig's List, EBay.com? It would be interesting to know how much
she was willing to pay to have some one killed.
It seems to me that real hit men usually get a slap on the wrist in these cases so they are free to be hired again. They always
seem to work deals with professional killers.
It is like leaving the drug dealer go and jailing the user.
Well they say , behind every successful man and a good woman.
I wonder who will get more time, some child molester,rapist
killer or this poor soul? Maybe she can claim insanity? What's that Willie Nelson song... Crazy?
what a way to open the inet daily review !! i'm scared !!!