AMERICANS FOR FIREARMS RIGHTS issued the following announcement on June 16.
GREEN BAY - A Green Bay man in jail on child sexual assault charges is accused of trying to hire his cellmate to kill witnesses in the case.
Laene Piontek, 32, was charged June 5 with sexually assaulting a child at a home in Ashwaubenon and is being held in the Brown County Jail.
Piontek was charged Tuesday with trying to pay his cellmate $20,000 to kill two witnesses in the child sexual assault case, according to a criminal complaint. Investigators said the cellmate gave a correctional officer a piece of paper on June 14 that said Piontek drew a map with a detailed layout of the witnesses' house.
The map was flushed down a toilet but the cellmate reproduced it and investigators said it was "shockingly accurate" in describing the victims' house, the complaint states. Piontek also shared other details of one witness' car and job that investigators said no one would know "unless they were familiar" with the witness.
On a recorded phone call with another inmate June 14, Piontek's cellmate said Piontek is "trying to solicitate me to murder," the complaint states.
He told investigators he had been cellmates with Piontek for only seven days and did not know him before becoming cellmates. He said Piontek told him to make the murders "look like an accident."
Piontek's bond was set at $100,000 Tuesday. He is scheduled to appear in court June 26 and faces two counts of solicitation of first-degree intentional homicide.
If convicted, he could spend a maximum of 25 years in prison.
Contact Benita Mathew at (920) 309-3428 or bmathew@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @benita_mathew.
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