A federal judge sentenced a former Fairbanks chiropractor to 17 years in prison on Wednesday for soliciting the murders of two federal law enforcement officers and a witness, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Guy Christopher Mannino, the 57-year-old from Fairbanks, tried to hire his jailhouse friend to do the killings while he was imprisoned at the Fairbanks jail on weapons charges, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office.
Prosecutors said Mannino wanted to retaliate against an FBI agent and an agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and he also wanted to prevent the witness from testifying against him, the Associated Press reported earlier this year.
A grand jury had indicted Mannino in August 2013 for felony charges related to the unlawful possession and transfer of banned weapons, including a machine gun and silencers, said the statement.
According to Wednesday's U.S. attorney's office statement, senior U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline said during the sentencing in Anchorage that Mannino "had engaged in extremely dangerous conduct in soliciting the murders, and that the trial jury concluded that he intended that these murders actually occur, rather than his conduct simply being 'jailhouse talk' between inmates as Mannino had contended."