A 53-year-old man from Uniontown pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court for attempting to hire a hitman to make a person known to him 'disappear.'
AKRON, Ohio — A 53-year-old man from Uniontown pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court for attempting to hire a hitman to make a person known to him"disappear."
According to a news release from the Department of Justice, the defendant, Scott Allen Renninger, pleaded guilty to one count of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire.According to the DOJ, between October and November 2020, Renninger offered to pay an individual posing as a hitman $20,000 to murder someone. Renninger gave the person the intended victim's personal information; including their address, license plate and a photograph of them.
The DOJ said that"on one occasion, Renninger stated to the individual that they needed to figure out a way to communicate, possibly using disposable phones and confirmed his desires to make the victim 'disappear.''Download the News 5 Cleveland app now for more stories from us, plus alerts on major news, the latest weather forecast, traffic information and much more. Download now on your Apple device here, and your Android device here.
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