{"id":71507,"date":"2025-12-04T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:25:09","slug":"tallahassee-inmate-arrested-in-murder-for-hire-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71507\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee inmate arrested in murder-for-hire plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 A Leon County inmate is accused of trying to hire a fellow prisoner to kill a family member. That&#8217;s according to the Leon County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Morichelli, 40, was charged with criminal solicitation to commit first-degree murder Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest comes after an investigation that began when another inmate reported the murder-for-hire plot.<\/p>\n<p>Morichelli was already being held at the Leon County Detention Facility on stalking charges when he made the accused offer on November 18.<\/p>\n<p>A deputy was notified by an inmate that Morichelli had offered money to carry out a murder, prompting the Criminal Investigations Division to launch an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives learned that Morichelli allegedly offered another inmate $40,000 to commit the murder once released from custody. When the inmate declined, Morichelli later increased the offer to $50,000, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed that the intended victim was a member of Morichelli&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>LCSO has not released additional details about the relationship or motive.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 A Leon County inmate is accused of trying to hire a fellow prisoner to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,4561,28,9552,5699,40619,1939,2371,8545,1665,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-71507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-deputy","tag-florida","tag-inmate","tag-leon-county-sheriffs-office","tag-michael-morichelli","tag-murder-for-hire","tag-prison","tag-probable-cause","tag-southwest-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}