murder for hire

Jerry Banks, of Garland, Colorado, is charged with kidnapping in connection to the murder.

Prosecutors said Andrew Silicani’s 35-year sentence is reasonable in light of two stabbings in early 2011 and the murder-for-hire plot.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A Wyoming man convicted of trying to hire a hit man to kill his parents is asking a federal appeals court to set aside his 35-year prison sentence and order a mental health review. Prosecutors said Andrew Silicani was serving time in state prison on robbery convictions last year when he tried to hire someone to kill his mother and stepfather in Cheyenne for insurance money...

Prosecutors will be allowed to introduce evidence that Cynthia Guy asked more than one of her clients to kill her about-to-be ex-husband.

Recent changes in attorneys for Cynthia Guy, accused of hiring a hit man to kill her ex-husband, will not alter deadlines before her trial in January, Natrona County District Court Judge Catherine Wilking said Wednesday. "I could not have been more clear that the deadlines would remain in effect," Wilking told Guy's new attorney Tom Jubin of Cheyenne...

Federal judges sentenced four men this week for crimes of murder-for-hire, methamphetamine, and illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien, according to a news release from the Wyoming U.S. Attorney's Office.   Andrew Lambert Silicani, 23, of Cheyenne was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by Chief U.S. D...

A Wyoming State Penitentiary inmate who tried to hire a hit man to kill his mother and stepfather will spend 35 more years in prison, according to court records.

An inmate at the Wyoming State Penitentiary who tried to hire a hit man to kill his parents will go on trial in federal court in Cheyenne in May. Andrew Lambert Silicani is charged with four counts of using the mail in a murder-for-hire scheme, according to the March 19 indictment...

A Cheyenne man incarcerated in the Wyoming State Penitentiary has been charged with trying to hire someone to kill his parents, according to federal court records.

A Casper woman charged last week with trying to hire someone to kill her ex-husband will undergo an evaluation to determine if she is competent to stand trial. Thursday, Cynthia Guy-Thomas appeared at her preliminary hearing during which prosecutors would have presented testimony that law enforcement had probable cause to arrest her on based on evidence that a crime was committed it and that she p