Mann knew of the ex-convict’s past, including that he had been convicted of murder and was a member of the Latin Kings street gang, according to the court papers.<\/p>\n
Around November, Mann allegedly passed the man the names of the intended targets and said he had done some research on their addresses — with the understanding that the price for the killings would be four kilograms of cocaine.<\/p>\n
A meeting between Mann and the intended hitman took place on Dec. 27, and the FBI recorded it, authorities said. Mann was recorded complaining that Caira was unwilling to pay anything before the murders occurred.<\/p>\n
Mann allegedly said he told Caira, “If you want Jack Mann, you’re gonna (expletive) pay.” He was arrested Jan. 13, according to court papers, and told investigators he had contacted the member of the Latin Kings street gang on Caira’s behalf.<\/p>\n
Mann appeared in court Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan and waived a detention hearing for the time being. Caira is set to appear in court Thursday, officials said.<\/p>\n
The case is being handled by assistant U.S. attorneys from the Northern District of Indiana because the Chicago office recused itself from the case.<\/p>\n
– Jeff Coen<\/em><\/p>\n Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two DuPage County men have been charged in a plot to kill a federal prosecutor in Chicago and an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, federal officials said today. Charged were Jack Mann, 41, of Naperville and Frank Caira, 39, of Downers Grove. A defense lawyer for an ex-convict reported to the FBI that his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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