Utah man charged with hiring hit man while awaiting trial for the same crime

  • Orane James Spence, 34, faces new charges for allegedly soliciting murder again.
  • Spence, who is already in jail, allegedly sought a hit man to kill his ex-wife and mother-in-law.
  • Police say he offered $50,000 to an informant for a ‘clean job’ with no suspicion.

SOUTH SALT LAKE — A Magna man, currently in the Salt Lake County Jail for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill his ex-wife and her mother, is now accused of doing the same thing while awaiting trial.

Orane James Spence, 34, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with two counts of criminal solicitation to commit murder, a first-degree felony.

It’s the same charge that was filed against him last year when prosecutors said he tried to do the same thing. That case is scheduled to go to trial at the end of the month…

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