‘Hitman’ wannabe charged
A Tennessee Air National Guardsman was arrested last week after applying to be a hitman on a parody website.
Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, was charged on Thursday with the use of interstate facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire by using the fake hitman website “Rentahitman.com.”
Garcia explored the site when he “needed money to support his family” and began searching “for contract mercenary jobs,” according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Garcia first made contact with the site on Feb. 16, when he filed an inquiry form indicating his interest in “obtaining employment as a hitman.”
An FBI agent posing as an agent for the website contacted Garcia for a phone interview, which led to the two meeting in person.
The FBI made the arrest at another meeting on April 12.