Woman Allegedly Hires Hit Man for Cheese

Washington Post ^ | 12/6/2005 | staff

[txroadkill]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- In an unusual case of mistaken identity, a woman who thought a block of white cheese was cocaine is charged with trying to hire a hit man to rob and kill four men. The woman also was mistaken about the hit man. He turned out to be an undercover police officer. Jessica Sandy Booth, 18, was arrested over the weekend and remains in jail with bond set at $1 million on four charges of attempted murder and four counts of soliciting a murder. According to police, Booth was in the Memphis home of the four intended victims last week when she mistook a block of queso fresco cheese for cocaine _ inspiring the idea to hire someone to break into the home, take the drugs, and kill the men. An informant described the plot to police, who arranged a meeting between Booth and the undercover officer. The undercover officer gave Booth some nonfunctioning handguns, bought ammunition for her because she was too young, and the two proceeded to the home under police surveillance. Booth told the officer that any children inside the house old enough to testify would have to be killed, police said. A search of the home with the permission of the occupants revealed no drugs _ only the white, crumbly cheese common in Mexican cuisine. "Four men were going to lose their lives over some cheese," said Lt. Jeff Clark, who heads Project Safe Neighborhoods.

[txroadkill]

Insert blonde joke here:

[Pajamajan]

Did she also offer them a moose?

[JennysCool]

Cheesy bump!

[RegulatorCountry]

Adds a whole new meaning to "Cheesehead," doesn't it?

[Not A Snowbird]

Why would anyone want to hit cheese?

Oh... never mind.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Or the obligatory "NACHO CHEESE" joke...

[Solamente]

Worse still, it coulda been Frumunda cheese.

[SittinYonder]

The undercover officer gave Booth some nonfunctioning handguns, bought ammunition for her because she was too young, and the two proceeded to the home under police surveillance.

entrapment

Had the cop not bought the ammo for her, clearly she would have not gone through with it.

[Pajamajan]

"She mistook the cheese for cocaine"

Egads- don't even have to add comments to this one.

[quark]

Have you in fact got any cheese here at all?

Yes, sir.

Really?

No. Not really, sir.

You haven't.

No, sir, not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time, sir.

Well, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot you.

Right-O, sir.

(Shoots him) What a senseless waste of human life.

[atomicpossum]

She's apparently an aspiring model.
http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=30552

[atomicpossum]

I think she'll be aspiring for quite a while.

[caryatid]

"She mistook the cheese for cocaine"

Egads- don't even have to add comments to this one.

The irony of this story is that Jessica Sandy may have been snorting CHEESE all this time! LOL

[WasDougsLamb]

In an unusual case of mistaken identity, a woman who thought a block of white cheese was cocaine -----Where do these people come from? They seem to be crawling out of the woodwork. I am embarassed for her.

[Pajamajan]

This woman is obviously a registered democrat voter.

[Larry Lucido]

So was the cheese pure or did someone cut it?

[School of Rational Thought]

"The undercover officer gave Booth some nonfunctioning handguns, bought ammunition for her because she was too young, and the two proceeded to the home under police surveillance"

Another scenario:

The men, fearing great bodily harm, pulled their own weapons and killed Ms. Booth. ;-)

Was were the cops thinking? How did they know the men were unarmed?

[txroadkill]

I read another version of this story yesterday, apparently the cops had already contacted the "victims" and served a search warrant on the house before they set up the "hit" and the "victims" were in on it. But still, what was the reason for giving her a gun?? Seems pretty stupid to me too, She completed the crime when she hired them to do the hit, why add risk to it? I don't see how that helps the case against her. I'm guessing the most action these cops probably ever see is when they are watching "COPS" or "Real Stories of the Highway Patrol". I would also bet that the block of cheese was probably what they convinced the cops she saw and they had already got rid of the cocaine before the cops got there.