SEATTLE (AP) — A former Army Ranger convicted of leading a 2006 Tacoma bank robbery in a terrifying military-style heist has pleaded guilty to attempting to hire a hit man to kill a federal prosecutor.
Luke E. Sommer also pleaded guilty Monday to attacking a robbery co-defendant behind bars because he thought the man had ratted him out. The 22-year-old Peachland, British Columbia, resident pleaded guilty in federal court to assault with a deadly weapon and solicitation of a crime of violence. Under terms of his plea agreement, he will face 20 years in prison in addition to the 24-year sentence he received in the August 2006 robbery of a Tacoma branch of Bank of America.
Court documents say Sommer offered an undercover FBI agent as much as $20,000 to kill a federal prosecutor last March, shortly after Sommer was sentenced on the bank robbery charges.
Sommer also pleaded guilty to attacking a co-defendant with a prison-made knife last January at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac. The victim suffered a minor stab wound.
