Plea Deal In Murder For Hire Case With RI Federal Inmate

PROVIDENCE, RI — A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to plotting murders with a federal prisoner.

Kareem Pires, 27, pleaded to conspiracy to tamper with a witness or informant by killing or attempting to kill, in a murder-for-hire plot.

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Pires, A Wareham resident, and Elijah Melton, a prisoner at Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, facing charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl, plotted the murder of witnesses and federal prosecutors, an FBI agent said in an affidavit.

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Melton planned to have his cellmate commit the murders, the agent said.

Pires was to provide the cellmate with information and money to carry out the killings, according to the agent, who said the cellmate snitched on Pires and Melton.

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In planning the killings, the men used the code names Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus to refer to two federal prosecutors marked for murder, the agent said.

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Pires' sentencing was scheduled for May 18.

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