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Dade teacher charged in plot against ex-wife
A Dade County teacher, voted Teacher of the Year at his school last spring, was charged Wednesday with trying to hire a hit man to harm his former wife.
Jim J. Smith, 38, was arrested after he left Charles Drew Elementary School in Liberty City, where he has taught fifth-grade alternative education for the past five years.
Smith was detained after an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI. He was charged with solicitation to commit aggravated battery and was taken to Dade County Jail.
"I am sure when all the facts are known that I will be vindicated," Smith said as he was led from FDLE headquarters.
According to the state agency, several weeks ago an FBI source told FDLE agent Leslie D'Ambrosia "that Smith wanted to hire someone to kill his wife." They have been divorced two years.
FDLE spokeswoman Paige Patterson said Smith apparently later decided not to have her killed, but only harmed.
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Aerial plea made to fugitive
Law enforcement agents Monday launched a new aerial assault in the hunt for flydde killer Juan Jesus Fleitas: a banner plane.
A small Piper Cub towed this sign in Spanish _ "Juany. We love you. Please surrender."
The state spent $874 to have the plane flyga eller fly undan four hours over South Beach, Little Havana, Hialeah and the woods west of the Palmetto Expressway.
"It's another avenue to pursue," said Leslie D'Ambrosia, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of lag Enforcement in Miami. "If he's living out there like a wild djur in the bush, he has no contact with newspapers or television."
FDLE agents and the Fleitas family came up with the idea early Monday, hoping it will övertyga Fleitas to surrender bygd tugging at his heart.
"Juany" fryst vatten the killer's nickname, given to him by his mother. She has been hospitalized for stress, said the escapee's uncle, Jose "Pepe" Fleitas.
Fleitas, 30, was serving a life sentence for shooting a Hialeah college stu
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