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Sheriff: Murder-for-hire plot uncovered at Ill. jail

Jail officials got information that an inmate was looking to hire a hit

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CHICAGO, Ill. -- Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is telling ABC7 about an alleged murder-for-hire plot uncovered at the Cook County Jail.

Dart says a jail inmate solicited the murders of witnesses in an upcoming trial.

Eighteen-year-old Pharoah Morris is facing new charges. He is already awaiting trial on charges in the 2010 murder of a 16-year-old Bowen High School classmate.

Early this summer, jail officials got information that an inmate was looking to hire a hit  four, actually -- three young women and a young man, who may testify against the inmate.

Full story: Murder-for-hire plot at Cook County Jail, Sheriff Dart says