Virginia Beach
The last of the three men charged in a murder-for-hire plot against a Tidewater Community College professor last year admitted his role and was ordered to serve eight and a half years in prison on Wednesday.
The defendant, Jay Glosser, 54, a former associate professor of information systems technology at the Norfolk campus, will serve six months more than his co-defendants. He reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, in which he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, solicitation and conspiracy to commit extortion. He waived his pre-sentence report and was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years with all but eight and a half suspended.
Glosser, of Queenswood Terrace in Chesapeake, was accused of conspiring to kill another TCC professor, Kimberly Perez, who had filed a sexual harassment complaint against him. Worried that the complaint could cost him his job, Glosser turned to his neighbor, Chesapeake trucking company owner Raymond Groves Sr., prosecutors said.
Glosser told Groves he was willing to pay $3,000 to $4,000 to get Perez to withdraw the complaint or $10,000 to "take her out," according to trial testimony.
According to prosecutors, Groves hired F. Devin Scott, a Portsmouth truck driver, to kill Perez if she did not pay $10,000 and recant the sexual harassment complaint. However, the plot unraveled during a State Police sting in June 2006, and the three men were arrested.
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