A 28-year-old Huntington woman has admitted to conspiring to kill a confidential informant in a drug case against her.

Emily R. Meyer pleaded guilty in Huntington Circuit Court last week to conspiracy to commit murder, a Class A felony. In exchange for her guilty plea, prosecutors dismissed an additional count of attempted murder, according to court documents.

In February 2009, Meyer was arrested on two Class A felony counts of dealing a controlled substance. Before she was released from jail on bond, she found out the person to whom she sold the drugs was a confidential informant for the police, according to court documents.

She admitted to working with Tyson Keplinger, her co-defendant, to hire a former prison-mate of Keplinger’s to kill the confidential informant for $6,000, according to court documents.

Meyer got $1,800 from her grandmother as a down payment, and Keplinger stole checks from a home where he was working with a local heating company, according to court documents.

She will be sentenced in late April. Keplinger is scheduled for trial within the next few weeks.

Ex-EACS mechanic admits molestings

A former mechanic for East Allen County Schools was sentenced to four years in prison Friday for child molesting.

Jerry A. Love, 52, of Monroeville, pleaded guilty to two charges of child molesting, admitting to fondling a 9-year-old girl between April and October. Charged Nov. 5, Love faced four counts of child molesting.

On Friday, Allen Superior Magistrate Robert Schmoll sentenced Love to two six-year prison sentences, but suspended two years of each sentence. He ordered the sentences to be served at the same time and sentenced Love to two years on probation and to pay $1,331 in restitution.

The East Allen County Schools board accepted Love’s resignation Nov. 3 but applied it retroactively to Oct. 28.

School officials said he had no contact with children and that they have no reason to believe he acted inappropriately while on the job.

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