Man Pleads Guilty in Murder-For-Hire Plot

An Annapolis man accused of trying to hire a hitman from Virginia to kill his wife pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder this week.

Wendell Brian Mansel pleaded guilty on Monday in Loudoun County Circuit Court in Virginia to multiple crimes, including three counts of conspiracy to commit murder, criminal solicitation to commit a felony and use of a firearm in commission of a felony, according to The Capital Gazette.

Mansel was arrested in Virginia in August, after police said he traveled there to meet with an undercover officer posed as a hitman. 

He faces up to 18 years in jail for the charges, according to The Capital.