A Cook County jail inmate already behind bars on a murder charge tried to hire someone inside the jail to kill three witnesses against him, according to police.
Devon Stidwell, 19, has been in jail since Sept. 19, 2014, on murder charges in connection with a Sauk Village case, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office.
Sheriff’s police learned in November that Stidwell was trying to hire a hitman, a statement from the sheriff’s office said.
He twice met with an undercover sheriff’s officer whom he thought was a hitman, and offered to pay $5,000 each to have three witnesses killed, police claim.
Stidwell, of Ford Heights, is now charged with solicitation of murder and solicitation of murder for hire, the sheriff’s office said.
Already being held without bond on the murder charge, he will appear in bond court Saturday on the new charges.
