A second man charged in a murder-for-hire conspiracy in Wilkes-Barre pleaded guilty to reduced charges Monday as his trial was scheduled to begin.<\/p>\n
Gregory Thomas Warren, 42, of Bronx, New York, was charged with conspiring with Dashawn \u201cHef\u201d William Nelson, 31, of Kingston, and Gregory DuClaire, 41, of Wilkes-Barre, to murder a man in retaliation for a previous shooting.<\/p>\n
The charges alleged Nelson was angered that the unidentified victim had shot up his business in Wilkes-Barre, so he offered DuClaire $5,000 to \u201ctake care of\u201d the problem. Nobody was injured as a result of the scheme.<\/p>\n
Warren was due to stand trial Monday but instead pleaded guilty to criminal use of a communication facility in exchange for additional charges, including conspiracy to commit murder, being withdrawn.<\/p>\n
Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Vough accepted the plea and set sentencing for March 4.<\/p>\n
Assistant District Attorney Julian F. Truskowski prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n
Nelson previously reached a similar plea deal and pleaded guilty to criminal use of a communication facility in exchange for the more serious charges being withdrawn.<\/p>\n
He was sentenced in December to five years of probation.<\/p>\n
Court records show DuClaire\u2019s case is still pending. He is due to appear for another hearing before Vough on Feb. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second man charged in a murder-for-hire conspiracy in Wilkes-Barre pleaded guilty to reduced charges Monday as his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[419,267,47129,9,11,10,12,3909,20704],"class_list":{"0":"post-106290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-luzerne-county","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-top-stories-cvc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}