COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A man charged in a 2013 sexual assault and abuse case involving two 15-year-old girls offered to pay to have one of his victims killed, prosecutors said.
Everardo Salinas, 29, thought he was hiring a hit man when he told a Cook County Sheriffs Department operative that he wanted to have the young girl murdered "because there was DNA on the case," Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Matthew Thrun alleged Thursday.
Prosecutors said Salinas was asking around in the jail about hiring someone to kill the girl. Thrun said the sheriff's department learned of Salinas' intentions and arranged for an operative to offer to help last month.
Salinas met the operative on June 28 in the jail visiting area, Thrun said. He provided the girl's name, physical description and location where she could be found, Thrun said. Salinas suggested that the supposed hit man use social media to locate the victim.
Salinas "said he wanted that particular victim murdered ... and there was DNA evidence on the case involving that particular victim," Thrun said.
Salinas promised to pay the man $2,500 upon his release from prison, Thrun said.
Prior to his new case, Salinas was being held at Cook County Jail on $400,000 bail. On Thursday, after hearing about the new allegations, a judge ordered him held without bail.
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