A former Fairbanks chiropractor will be sentenced in May in a murder-for-hire case.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Guy Christopher Mannino was found guilty by a federal jury Friday of three out of five counts.
Prosecutors say Mannino tried to hire his jailhouse friend Julius “J.T.” Chambers to kill a witness, an FBI agent and an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The witness would have testified Mannino tried to hire him in a separate murder-for-hire plot that was not carried out and did not result in charges. The testimony could have impacted Mannino’s sentencing for the illegal transfer and possession of weapons.
Jurors acquitted Mannino of trying to have his former attorney killed, as well as another ATF agent.
Defense attorney Scott Dattan said this was a case of jailhouse boasts taken seriously.
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