A San Diego woman has been sentenced to less than four years for attempting to hire a hitman to kill her husband.
Tatyana Remley, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of solicitation to commit murder on December 28 after reportedly agreeing to pay someone $2 million to kill her husband of 12 years, Mark Remley, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office said.
After her admission to court to planning the hit on him, along with possession of a firearm that wasn’t registered to her, Vista Superior Court Judge David Danielson sentenced her to three years and eight months in state prison.
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Another gun-related charge was also dropped, Law & Crime Network reports.
In August, an undercover operation was launched by authorities after they received information that Remley was attempting to hire someone to kill her husband.
She later met with an undercover police officer and 'provided detailed information on how she wanted her husband killed and his body disposed'.
According to the attorney's office, she also provided 'three additional firearms and U.S. currency as a down payment for the murder'.
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Prior to this, authorities had also received a call on July 2 at around 7.30pm about a house fire.
Police arrived to find Remley in possession of three firearms and ammunition. She was arrested for firearms-related offences - with the cause of the fire still undergoing investigation.
The couple, who married in 2011, split and rekindled a number of times before Remley filed for divorce, The Independent reports.
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According to Law & Crime, Remley had suddenly relocated to Phoenix, Arizona and described herself as 'single' on her Facebook page.
In the divorce documents filed in July, it appeared that Tatyana was filing for spousal support as her attorney wrote it in the filing: “Wife is experiencing extreme financial strain.
"She is unable to maintain her realistic monthly expenses of just $12,000, much less [than] what she was accustomed to at $50,000.
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"She has no income and does not have the same access to funds and assets that Respondent does.”
The couple had previously ran a series of acrobatic horse shows in 2012 named 'Valitar' - described by Remley as being 'Cirque du Soleil with horses'.
However, the show was cancelled due to reported low ticket sales, it was reported at the time.
Erik Martonovich, the show's director, told The San Diego Union-Tribune: “They had no clue what they were doing — about anything.
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“They weren’t horse people, and they weren’t show people.”
Chelsea Connor