* Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, needed money to support his family and searched online
for a job as a hitman in mid-February on rentahitman.com, a parody site.
* Garcia submitted an inquiry to the website to work as a hit man with the website
owner then forwarding his information to the FBI.
[link to www.msn.com (secure)]
April 14, 2023
An FBI undercover agent then began communicating with Garcia who subsequently agreed to kill an individual for $5,000. On Wednesday, Garcia met the undercover agent at a park in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and was provided with a target packet of a fictional individual, which included photographs and other information about the individual to be killed, and a down payment of $2,500. After agreeing to the terms of the murder arrangement, Garcia asked the agent if he needed to provide a photograph of the dead body. Garcia was then arrested by FBI agents, who in a subsequent search of his home, recovered an AR style rifle.
If convicted, Garcia faces up to 10 years in prison.
www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/air-national-guardsman-charged-murder-hire-scheme
He had no idea it was a parody site when he applied!
* Parody:
A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.
Synonyms: Satire. Spoof
* Satire:
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
* Spoof:
A humorous imitation of something, typically a film or a particular genre of film, in which its characteristic features are exaggerated for comic effect.
h/t nutmeg