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Military Reservist Arrested for Applying as Hitman on Parody Website

  • Josiah Garcia, an Air National Guardsman, responded to a parody hitman-for-hire website called RentAHitman.com, thinking the services were real.
  • Garcia applied for a job as an assassin, providing personal details and touting his military experience and marksmanship.
  • An undercover FBI agent posing as a representative for the site met with Garcia, who agreed to kill an abusive husband for $5,000.
  • Garcia accepted an initial payment of $2,500 from the agent before he was arrested and charged with interstate murder-for-hire.
  • If convicted, Garcia faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
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