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Ex-Ranger pleads guilty to prosecutor hit plan
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Jan 8, 2010 9:14:44 EST
Posted : Friday Jan 8, 2010 9:14:44 EST
SEATTLE — A former Army Ranger convicted of leading a 2006 Tacoma bank robbery in a terrifying military-style heist has pleaded guilty to attempting to hire a hit man to kill a federal prosecutor.
Luke E. Sommer also pleaded guilty Monday to attacking a robbery co-defendant behind bars because he thought the man had ratted him out.
Sommer, 22, of Peachland, British Columbia, pleaded guilty in federal court to assault with a deadly weapon and solicitation of a crime of violence. Under terms of his plea agreement, he will face 20 years in prison in addition to the 24-year sentence he received in the August 2006 robbery of a Bank of America branch.
Court documents say Sommer offered an undercover FBI agent as much as $20,000 to kill a federal prosecutor in March, shortly after Sommer was sentenced on the bank robbery charges.
Sommer also pleaded guilty to attacking a co-defendant with a prison-made knife in January 2009 at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac. The victim suffered a minor stab wound.
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Ex-Ranger Luke Sommer is seen smoking outside his mother’s home in Peachland, B.C., on Feb. 22, 2007.
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