Baltimore Man Sentenced In Murder-For-Hire Scheme

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore man has been handed two life sentences plus 10 years for killing a cooperating witness years ago in a murder-for-hire scheme.
Authorities announced 49-year-old Troy Allen Lucas’ sentence in a news release Friday.
Prosecutors say Lucas was a gang member who was paid in cash and cocaine to kill Robert Long, a cooperating witness in several cases that were pending in 2007 and 2008.
Long was shot twice in the head on March 24, 2008, in an open area behind a s