By Jeff Proctor
The Albuquerque Journal
ALBUQUERQUE — Earl Scott Robinson, already convicted once of plotting a failed murder-for-hire, is at it again — this time from behind bars, court records say.
Robinson was served Wednesday with a warrant charging him with two counts each of criminal solicitation to commit first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, intimidating a witness and retaliation against a witness, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metro Court.
Robinson, the 72-year-old former proprietor of the nowdefunct Señor Pies restaurant on Gibson SE, is in jail at the Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting trial on charges that he sexually assaulted a then-11-year-old boy in 1999.
The charges filed Wednesday allege that Robinson tried to hire a former inmate at the West Side jail to “take out” the boy he allegedly raped and the boy’s grandmother, the complaint states.
Police say the other inmate, who is now cooperating with law enforcement, received a notarized promissory note from Robinson — while the two were in jail together — in the amount of $15,500 to kill the boy and his grandmother.
Robinson told the informer that after the boy was killed, he would “file a motion with the court to be released because the witness in his molestation case will not be able to appear in court,” the complaint says. The informer “advises after (the boy and his grandmother) are killed, Robinson wants their bodies to ‘disappear.’ He suggested burying them in the desert outside Roswell.”
And once released, Robinson planned to “get rid of” a litany of other enemies, including District Judge Ross Sanchez, who is to preside over Robinson’s molestation trial; Robinson’s former attorney; two men Robinson says robbed him; the informer in his previous murder-for-hire case; and the two prosecutors in the 2004 case.
It was one of those prosecutors - former Assistant District Attorney Rachel Berenson - who Robinson was convicted of plotting to have killed in 2004.
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