An Annapolis woman will spend 18 months in jail in connection with a murder-for-hire plot.
Cynthia Lisa Mills entered an Alford plea—maintaining innocence, but admitting prosecutors had enough evidence on which to convict her—in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Thursday, The Capital Gazette reports.
Mills was charged in January after, according to police, she tried to help plan the murder of the wife of the man with whom Mills was having an affair. A Leesburg, VA man tipped off investigators after the husband, Wendell Brian Mansel of Annapolis, approached him about a contract killer. Mansel was apprehended there in August when meeting with an undercover officer posing as a hitman.
Mansel pleaded guilty in April to three counts of conspiracy to commit murder, criminal solicitation to commit a felony and use of a firearm in commission of a felony for his role in the plot. He could face 18 years in prison in his sentencing on Sept. 4 in Loudoun County (VA) Circuit Court, according to the Gazette report.
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