Javier A. Rodriguez, a 47-year-old Wilmington, DE man, was sentenced to 118 months in federal prison after being charged with planning an interstate murder-for-hire in 2022. An FBI confidential informant was contacted by Rodriguez to kill his ex-wife for $10,000 after meeting several times to plan out the hit, according to court records. After giving the informant a down payment of $5,000, officials said he was notified by police that his ex-wife had gone missing after the FBI planned a ruse to make Rodriguez believe she was killed. assassination attempt, do away with, murder for hire, hitman, Javier A. Rodriguez,