Posted on 03/01/2006 8:04:37 AM PST by Cagey
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A woman pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder charges for trying to hire a hit man to rob and kill four men for what she thought was cocaine, but turned out to be cheese.
Jessice Sandy Booth, 18, hatched the plot after she visited the home of the men, and mistook queso fresco - a white, crumbly cheese common in Mexican cuisine.
But the hit man she hired turned out to be an undercover police officer.
"They asked her numerous times 'Do you really want to go through with this?'" prosecutor Paul Hagerman said. "They gave her numerous chances to back out, but she said she was serious. She said she needed the money for modeling school."
Booth pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of attempted first-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. She would be eligible for parole after serving 20 percent of her sentence, but it generally isn't granted on first request for violent crimes.
Booth planned to take part in the murders, and went with a police officer to buy a handgun. She told investigators that she planned to make sure all possible witnesses were killed.
"Then they would have been murdered, too," Booth said about children or other bystanders in her statement to investigators. "If they would have been babies they would not have been able to talk and then they would not have been murdered."
These are the only guys I can imagine who would have queso fresco in their fridge.
I read that story several times and still don't see how this happened.
Maybe more coffee will help.
A recent photo of Jessice with her "Dream Stash".
she is a stupid @ss of enormous proportions.
She visited the home of the four men. While there, she saw what appeared to be a large amount of cocaine. She hired a hitman to kill the four men so she could steal their "cocaine" and sell it to pay for modeling school. The hitman turned out to be an undercover cop, and the "cocaine" turned out to be powdered cheese. Definitely a bizarre tale.
LOL!!!
Does that look like cocaine to you!?
That's the flummux for me.
Okay - how do you mistake cheese for cocaine.
I've never seen "powdered" cheese. Well, outside of a box of mac and cheese while I was in college.
Here's crack pipe for her to smoke her cheese in.
MMMM...smoked cheese...
The white, crumbly cheese probably looked like lumps of crack cocaine.
It looks more like moldy Bayer's Aspirin to me.
I get it now.... I'm stuck on the cocaine of the 80s that looks more like ajax than the crack cocaine of today - which I don't get to see much outside of television.
;^)
LOL!
Ajax, the foaming cleanser.
"That's Nacho cocaine! That's mine! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!"
She's not overly endowed with brain cells.
aka Jessica Booth
She looks quite a bit like Sonya Thomas.
l o l
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