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women arrested
Two Greencreek women have been arrested and charged in connection with trying to contract for murder. Debra Wensman, 50, and Doris Wensman, 46, were taken into custody Thursday, Jan. 24, by the Idaho County Sheriff’s Office. They allegedly offered to pay an undercover law enforcement officer money, guns and ammunition to kill Ed Stubbers, a neighbor of theirs. The Wensman sisters appeared before Magistrate Jeff P. Payne on Friday, Jan. 25, and are being held in the Idaho County Jail on separate bonds of $100,000. They were charged with the purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of a crime by soliciting a person to commit murder, a felony. A preliminary hearing for both sisters has been set for Friday, Feb. 8 at the Idaho County Courthouse. According to the probable cause affidavit filed by Detective Brian Hewson of the ICSO, Ryan Mader, who was delivering fuel oil to the Wensmans on Tuesday, was confronted by them and accused of assessing their property at night and stalking them. Mader denied ever being on the property at night. Then the conversation allegedly turned to them offering him guns, ammunition and $5,000 to kill Stubbers. The Wensmans allegedly told Mader they had tried to hire somebody in the past to kill their neighbor but the deed was never done. According to Hewson’s report, when Mader returned to his employer’s office in Grangeville he reported the incident and said he never wanted to go on the Wensmans’ property again. Mader then contacted the sheriff’s office with the information. A group of deputies met at the Greencreek Hall on Thursday and Deputy Sam AuGello, dressed in plain clothes and driving an unmarked vehicle, was equipped with a digital transmitter. He drove to the Wensmans’ home and made contact with the Wenmans. They allegedly began discussing their desire to hire someone to kill Stubbers. During the conversation they told AuGello they believed their house was bugged and the three moved outside to the driveway. The Wensmans allegedly offered AuGello $1,500, along with guns and ammunition, to kill Stubbers, and in an “act of good faith,” according to the report, gave AuGello a loaded handgun. They told him they had to go to their bank in Kooskia to withdraw the money and made a plan to meet later between Kooskia and Stites along State Highway 13. As the sisters returned to the their residence the deputies, who had been listening in on the conversation, drove up and took them into custody. Several other loaded guns and ammunition were found in their belongings after the arrest according to the ICSO.
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