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Article: Police: Man Plotted to Behead NYPD Chief
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- Article date:
- March 6, 2007
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NEW YORK - A man was arrested Monday for trying to hire a contract killer to behead the city's police commissioner in revenge for the police shooting that left a young groom dead on his wedding day, authorities said.
David Brown, 47, was charged with criminal solicitation after he offered an undercover officer $65,000 to kill Commissioner Raymond Kelly and blow up police headquarters in Manhattan, police spokesman Paul J. Browne said.
"I want his head chopped off," Brown told the undercover officer, according to a partial transcript provided by police of the taped conversation.
According to police, Brown, who is in jail on a separate charge, asked a man to find someone who was willing ...