Vernon Hills Man Pleads Not Guilty of Solicitation of Murder

Jonathan Villasana, 24, of Vernon Hills, plead not guilty this week to hiring an undercover police officer to kill the mother of a woman he injured in a May 2012 motorcycle crash, reported the Daily Herald.

Villasana, who has already been convicted and sentenced for reckless driving causing bodily harm, is now charged with solicitation of murder and solicitation of murder for hire agreeing to pay an undercover cop $5,000 to do a hit on his victim's mother, according to the Herald.

Villasana remains in jail on $1 million bond.