Cary man gets 7 years in murder-for-hire plot
WOODSTOCK – A Cary businessman was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for offering a man $3,000 to kill a former employer in March 2011.
Stanley J. Helmer, 60, pleaded guilty in June to attempted solicitation of murder for hire and solicitation of aggravated discharge of a firearm, both Class 1 felonies. As part of his sentence, Helmer must pay a $10,000 fine.
Prosecutors played several tapes between the man Helmer solicited, referred to in court documents as “John Hire.”
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