{Corbin, Kentucky}...Amber Hursey pleaded guilty Tuesday to solicitation of murder and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Police say, in November 2011, Hursey tried to hire someone to kill her husband, James Hursey, a disabled Iraq war veteran living in Corbin, in Laurel County. State Police say Hursey offered her husband's life insurance money in exchange for his murder, but the hit man turned out to be a friend of James Hursey's, who told him and police about the plan. Amber Hursey was arrested on November 10th and was indicted by a Laurel grand jury two months later. Police say the couple was going through a pending divorce and custody battle at the time. Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Laurel County Woman Sentenced
{Corbin, Kentucky}...Amber Hursey pleaded guilty Tuesday to solicitation of murder and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Police say, in November 2011, Hursey tried to hire someone to kill her husband, James Hursey, a disabled Iraq war veteran living in Corbin, in Laurel County. State Police say Hursey offered her husband's life insurance money in exchange for his murder, but the hit man turned out to be a friend of James Hursey's, who told him and police about the plan. Amber Hursey was arrested on November 10th and was indicted by a Laurel grand jury two months later. Police say the couple was going through a pending divorce and custody battle at the time. 