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Cops: Inmate plotted murder via paper airplane

Patrick O’Sullivan had hoped to kill his alleged victim and a witness and offered a fellow inmate $23K to make it happen

By Arden Dier
Newser

LONG ISLAND — A Long Island man accused of rape will now also be charged with conspiracy to murder after what police say was a plot hatched using, well, paper airplanes.

Patrick O’Sullivan, 21, had hoped to kill his alleged victim and a witness, police say, and offered a fellow inmate $23,000 to make it happen, via flying notes the men called “kites,” NBC New York reports.

“Without a vic’s statement, the DA’s case against me would lose all the power right? As long as you get that done, I will be Gucci,” said one message, which the other inmate (who is set to be released soon) then handed over to police.

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