DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK: GUY TRIES TO HIRE HITMAN WHO TURNS OUT TO BE COP – TWICE
by Hazed
Sometimes the saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again,” is not one to follow. Such is the case with Andrew S Gordon. He just didn’t know when to quit. After he tried to hire a hitman to dispose of his ex-wife, but accidentally attempted to engage the services of an undercover state trooper, he then put out a hit on the trooper – and once more was caught by an undercover officer.
His troubles started when his wife, from whom he was estranged, asked for financial support. He refused to pay, and sent her some aggressive emails, so she told him she wanted a divorce.
His response to this was to vandalise her car. To cover his tracks, he also damaged other cars in the neighbourhood. Yeah, very bright.
Next he decided to take more drastic action. After plotting to kill his ex, he settled on getting her beaten up so badly she’d be unable to attend a hearing in the Family and Probate Court. He told a friend that paying a hitman $20,000 was a small price compared to an expensive divorce.
He tried to hire someone to do the job, but the man he approached turned out to be an undercover state trooper. As a result, he was arrested and charged with a string of offences, which included attempted assault and battery, intimidating a witness and violating a restraining order.
Police were already investigating Gordon for vandalising his wife’s car using glue, nails and flat tires – his wife had hired a PI who had installed a camera which had caught Gordon in the area.
You’ve heard the phrase “Once bitten, twice shy” but obviously Gordon had not, because he decided to try and make the charges against him go away – by taking out a hit on the state trooper who had entrapped him. He approached a gang member to kill the state trooper, offering him $15,000. But guess what: that gang member was also an undercover cop.
He has already been sentenced to three-five years in jail for the attempted hit on his wife, and is facing up to 50 years for going after the state trooper when he’s sentenced for that crime in May.
We can only hope he doesn’t try for “Third time lucky!”
As a postscript, is it ever possible for an ordinary person who doesn’t already have criminal connections to hire a genuine hitman, or are all the ones you could find easily undercover cops? Just wondering…
Source: http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_29597817/former-chelmsford-man-guilty-trying-hire-hitman-kill
http://www.lowellsun.com/news/ci_26667512/records-man-sought-have-wife-disappear
