Second Person Charged for Alleged Plot to Murder Drug Informant

Second Person Charged for Alleged Plot to Murder Drug Informant

State police at Rockview on Wednesday filed charges against the Centre County Correctional Facility inmate accused of devising a failed plot to murder a confidential police informant in a drug case against him. Mark C. Hackett, 63, allegedly conspired with his girlfriend, Amanda L. Zortman, in an attempt to hire a hitman to deliver a lethal dose of fentanyl to an informant who purchased drugs from Hackett on behalf of law enforcement during an i…

Pennsylvania Woman Charged In Alleged Plot To Kill Police Informant

A Pennsylvania woman is accused of conspiring with her jailed boyfriend to murder a police informant using a fentanyl-laced drug. Details of the chilling plot revealed

Clearfield Co., Woman And Centre Co., Inmate Charged With Conspiring To Kill Informant

A Clearfield County woman, along with her boyfriend, who is currently incarcerated at the Centre County Prison, have been charged after they allegedly conspired to kill a confidential informant.  State police say 45-year-old Amanda Zortman of Grampian and her 63-year-old boyfriend Mark Hackett, allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill an informant they blame for Hackett’s incarceration.  The investigation into the murder-for-hire case, began las…

Grampian Woman Charged with Criminal Solicitation-Murder

BELLEFONTE- A Grampian woman has been charged with criminal solicitation-murder and related offenses for trying to arrange for a hit man to kill a police informant. On Monday, Amanda Zortman, 45, was also charged by state police in Rockview with conspiracy/murder and criminal use of communication facility. According to the affidavit of probable cause filed with District Judge Kelley Gillette-Walker in Bellefonte, the investigation began after po…