She pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and agreed to assist the prosecution of husband Joel Lopez under terms of a plea agreement. The 51-year-old Lopez faces a life sentence when he's sentenced next Friday. He's already serving a life sentence for a 2006 drug conviction.
Joel Lopez was accused of offering a fellow inmate $2 million in June 2007 to kill U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa in McAllen and $1 million to kidnap and ransom a woman who allegedly owed him a drug debt. The inmate tipped authorities.
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