By Associated Press - Thursday, March 13, 2014

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut woman accused of trying to hire a hit man for $1,500 to kill her husband has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.

Fifty-eight-year-old Elvira Rosa of Waterbury entered the plea Wednesday in Danbury Superior Court. She remains jailed on $250,000 bail.

Police told The News-Times (https://bit.ly/O6cHHR ) that Rosa wanted her husband dead so she could use the $20,000 from his life insurance policy to help her cousin’s husband and two children, because the cousin was in jail. Her 60-year-old husband lives in Patterson, N.Y.



Rosa was arrested Feb. 12 after police say she tried to hire a hit man, who turned out to be an undercover police detective. She’s due back in court March 26.

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