An Air National Guardsman from Toledo went to www.rentahitman.com, submitted his resume, extolled on his willingness to kill people, and got himself a job interview hoping to start a career as a murder-for-hire professional.
The problem was that the web site was a joke. And so was the company that was supposedly looking for hit men.
But the prison sentence facing wannabe hired killer Josiah Ernesto Garcia is no joke. The website administrator, calling himself Guido, replied to Garcia’s emails in early 2023 at the direction of the FBI.
“Guido” informed Garcia that a coordinator would be in touch. The FBI sent an undercover agent to meet with Garcia, 21, at a park in Hendersonville, Tennessee and paid him $2,500 to kill a man who in fact didn’t exist, according to federal prosecutors. Garcia was ready to do the job and even offered to provide a photo of the dead body, court papers said.
The guardsman left the meeting not with a job but a set of handcuffs around his wrists. He pleaded guilty this week to using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and now faces up to 10 years in federal prison at his Feb. 2025 sentencing.