A Central Florida inmate was recently charged with attempting a hit on a victim, prosecutor and detective.
According to the State Attorney, Talil M. Vann hatched a detailed plan to avoid trial on sexual battery charges in Seminole County: hire a hit man – communicating through secret code – to kill his adolescent victim plus the lead prosecutor and police detective on his case. The Altamonte Springs detective would be taken out with a pipe bomb strapped to a remote-controlled car, according to Vann’s written directions.
But the killer Vann thought he had hired from inside the county jail turned out to be an undercover Seminole County sheriff’s deputy, tipped off by a confidential informant.
Now, 24-year-old Talil Vann has been charged with three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder – each punishable by life in prison – and one count of solicitation to tamper with a witness. Vann already faced life in prison for two counts of sexual battery of a child younger than 12 and one count of using of a child in a sexual performance, due to phone video he took of the rape…