A young Florida mother was arrested after she allegedly used a parody website to hire a hitman to kill her 3-year-old son, police said.
Jazmin Paez,18, is facing charges of first-degree solicitation of murder and third-degree using a communications device for an unlawful use. She’s accused of logging onto hitmanforhire.com in search of an assassin, going as far as to submit a photo of her toddler as well as his exact whereabouts, according to court documents obtained by NBC Miami. She allegedly wanted the job done before the week’s end.
Investigators were alerted to Paez’s plot by the website owner, Robert Innes. He said that while he gets hundreds of hitman requests on a daily basis — many of them jokes — Paez’s solicitation stood out as too real.
“The ability to research names and addresses and verify the intended target lived in a particular address,” Innes told NBC Miami. That to me is a red flag. If that information is corroborated, to me that is something that needs to be looked at and that’s why I referred it.”
According to authorities, the website founder created the platform to catch and curb those looking to hire a killer.
Paez eventually connected with an investigator through the site who was posing as a hitman. She offered to pay him $3,000 to murder her 3-year-old boy, CBS News reported. From there, authorities were able to track down the IP of the computer that was used to make the request and confirmed in belonged to Paez.
After speaking to the child’s grandmother, who confirmed he was the boy featured in the photos submitted to the website, authorities swooped in and arrested his mother. She was booked into the Miami-Dade jail but has since been released on $50,000 bond, NBC Miami reported.
Her son is currently safe and being cared for by family.
