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From Jan 2022

A young man a prosecutor called a “wannabe murderer” has been sentenced to state prison as an instigator of a thwarted murder-for-hire plot in Lycoming County.
Senior Judge Kenneth D. Brown on Tuesday told Dillian Mikel Weaver, 20, he is lucky that police were notified because if the plot had been carried out he could be going to prison for life.

The judge sentenced Weaver to 20 months to 5 years in state prison with the recommendation he receive mental health counseling.
Weaver was one of three individuals charged in the plot to kill Howard Blackburn, the stepfather of his former girlfriend Angelina Grace Peluso.

He pleaded guilty in October to a charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
The April 2020 plot to kill Blackburn failed because Annette Marie Kriner, whom he contacted to help carry out the killing, went to state police.

It resulted in a sting operation in which Weaver, not knowing he was being recorded, outlined his plan to an undercover trooper.

The plot, according to what Peluso told police, was hatched after Blackburn slapped and punched her when he discovered her in bed with Weaver in his house.
Kriner told police when Weaver came to her house on April 22, 2020, he said he wanted Blackburn killed because he had raped his girlfriend two nights earlier.

When Pelsuo was interviewed she admitted Blackburn had not sexually assaulted her. She said that she had lied to Weaver to make him angry at her stepfather.
Defense attorney George E. Lepley Jr. said his client realizes he could have been a participant in the killing of innocent man.
Weaver and Peluso, now 18, originally were charged with solicitation and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder along with criminal use of a communication device.

But she was prosecuted as a juvenile, adjudicated delinquent on a charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and received detention time.
Kriner, when she pleaded guilty in April to a charge of criminal use of a communications device, admitted she used a cell phone to try to contact a person she thought would kill Blackburn.

She was placed on five years’ probation and 150 hours of community service.
 
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