Article: U.S. woman arrested on alleged plot to steal cocaine brick that turned out to be cheese


AP Worldstream
12-06-2005
Dateline: MEMPHIS, Tennessee
A woman allegedly tried to hire a hitman to rob and kill some men who she believed had a brick of cocaine in their house, police said. However, the white block turned out to be cheese, and the hitman for hire was an undercover police office.

The woman was in the Memphis home of the four intended victims last week when she mistook a block of queso fresco cheese for cocaine _ inspiring the alleged idea to hire someone to break into the home, take the drugs, and kill the men, police say.

Jessica Sandy Booth, 18, was arrested over the weekend and remains in jail with bond set at $1 million (euro850,000) on four charges of attempted murder ...

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