Arrest of 18-Year-Old Mother for Trying to Hire Hitman to Harm 3-Year-Old Son

A young mother, aged 18, has been arrested for allegedly attempting to hire a hitman from a fake murder-for-hire website to kill her 3-year-old son. Jazmin Paez is facing charges of first-degree solicitation of murder and third-degree using a communications device for an unlawful use, according to online arrest records. She was booked into a Miami-Dade County detention center on Wednesday and given a standard $15,000 bond. It is unclear if she has posted bail or obtained legal representation.

According to court documents cited by CBS News, Paez allegedly sent the location and photos of her son to the parody website RentaHitman.com. The website’s owner, Robert Innes, initially created the website for a cybersecurity project and claimed to receive thousands of inquiries daily. In a video by local Florida news outlet NBC6, Innes alleged that Baez wrote in an online request form that she needed a hitman to “get something done once and for all” and wanted her son taken “far, far away.”

Innes also claimed to have attempted to report the incident to the Miami-Dade Police Department several times but said they directed him to CrimeStoppers USA. Eventually, the Miami-Dade Police Department took action. The mother allegedly told the police that she was in a romantic relationship with an individual who didn’t like that she had a son and had broken up with Paez for this reason. Paez believed that by hiring a hitman to harm her son, she would be able to rekindle their relationship, according to the affidavit she provided to the police.