A man from Canandaigua, New York, who was recently found guilty of raping a high school senior after holding her captive for several days, is now facing accusations of planning a murder-for-hire scheme.
Through phone calls from jail, he coordinated the scheme with his girlfriend. The judge, prosecutor, and witness involved in his conviction were among the alleged targets of the plot, according to Law&Crime.
Alexander Kise, 21, risked a long prison sentence after being convicted in mid-March for sexually assaulting and unlawfully imprisoning an 18-year-old high school student he had met online and invited to stay with him for the weekend in June 2022.
Before his sentencing, Kise allegedly conspired with his girlfriend, Alydia Gater, 22, to pay someone with $1,750 worth of Xanax pills to kill the judge handling his case.
However, the person they thought was an assassin was actually an undercover cop, which led to Gater's arrest as well.
Kise and Gater made the mistake of discussing their plot in jailhouse calls, using specifics like where the targets lived, prosecutors said.
"There were actually very affirmative actions taken on behalf of Alexander Kise by his girlfriend and others. There is a juvenile who is charged in this case with also taking the life of a judge, and there were plans to take the life of an assistant district attorney and a person who testified in his original trial," Assistant District Attorney Kelly Wolford announced Thursday.
