Man Charged with Soliciting Murder
A southwestern Kentucky man has been charged with solicitation of murder after police say he was recorded on a phone call discussing the plot. Hopkinsville police arrested 28-year-old Steven Dewayne Mayton of Crofton at about three a.m. Sunday after officers heard a phone conversation between Mayton and a woman. According to an arrest warrant, Mayton had been speaking on the phone with a woman, whose was not released, about wanting to “torture, maim and kill,” a man. The identity of the man wasn’t released. Police say Mayton then offered the woman $1,000 cash to find the man and lure him to where Mayton would kill him. Mayton was in Christian County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
