Jackson, Miss. – A Pelahatchie woman was arrested yesterday in a murder-for-hire plot.
Jessica Leeann Sledge, 39, of Pelahatchie, is charged in a federal criminal complaint with use of interstate commerce facility in the commission of murder-for-hire.
The complaint alleges that between September 2021, and November 1, 2021, Sledge “used facilities of interstate commerce with the intent to hire an assassin to murder an individual in Mississippi.”
Unknown to Sledge, the “hitman” she hired via the internet to commit a murder was in fact an FBI Special Agent. The intended victim, who was not identified, was unharmed.
If convicted, she faces up to ten years in federal prison.
