Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Salyersville Man Sentenced
KENTUCKY....
Seventy-one year old Robert Barnett of Salyersville in Magoffin County was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for trying to arrange the murder of a West Virginia man who owed him money and possession of a machine gun. A mandatory 30 years of the sentence stems from the charge for having a machine gun. The sentences will run consecutively. In June, a jury convicted Barnett in a murder-for-hire plot involving an undercover ATF agent who was hired to kill a man in Huntington. Prosecutors say Barnett gave the agent a machine gun, a pistol, two illegal silencers and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, along with $5,000 as a down payment and a promise to pay $4,000 after the slaying.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 11:30 PM 
