Oklahoma attorney arrested for soliciting a murderer to kill another convicted killer while

An Oklahoma defense attorney has been arrested for asking a convicted murderer to kill another murderer while they were behind bars.

Attorney Winston Connor II, 54, was arrested Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina, after stepping off an airplane from a Caribbean vacation with his wife.   

Connor was said to have been secretly indicted by a grand jury in November, which charged with solicitation for first-degree murder, racketeering, witness tampering, assault, unlawful communication with an inmate and drug and prostitution offenses, News OK reported.

Connor faces charges including solicitation of first-degree murder, racketeering and prostitution offenses

Defense attorney Winston Connor II, 54, was arrested on Saturday on charges including solicitation of first-degree murder, racketeering and prostitution offenses

Conner is seen vacationing in Turks and Caicos Island with his partner, days before his arrest

Conner is seen vacationing in Turks and Caicos Island with his partner, days before his arrest

Connor was arrested shortly after arriving home from a Caribbean vacation. He is accused of soliciting a murderer to kill another convicted killer in prison

Connor was arrested shortly after arriving home from a Caribbean vacation. He is accused of soliciting a murderer to kill another convicted killer in prison

Connor captioned in the above photo from vacation: 'Happy 29th Birthday for the 21st time sweetheart'

Connor captioned in the above photo from vacation: ‘Happy 29th Birthday for the 21st time sweetheart’

The charges appear to stem from investigations that began in 2016, when authorities heard Connor on the phone with convicted murderer Slint Tate, 36, who was in prison serving a life sentence for fatally shooting a sheriff’s deputy when he was 16. 

According to court records obtained by the newspaper, the Oklahoma state narcotics bureau suspected that Tate was running a drug ring out of prison and had been listening in on Tate’s cell phone calls. 

In May 2016, authorities heard Connor and Tate discussing a reduction in his prison sentence and also Connor’s efforts at getting his secretary’s car returned. 

Before wrapping up the call, Connor was said to have mentioned Sterling B. Williams, a man who had been on death row for 15 years before his conviction was tossed out in 2013. 

Williams was sentenced to life in prison in May 2016 for fatally stabbing a 22-year-old woman in her home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1997. 

At the sentencing, the judge ruled that Williams be credited for time served towards a 99-year sentence he’d been given for assaulting the woman’s roommate, according to Tulsa World. 

Authorities said Connor asked convicted murder Slint Tate, 36 (left), to kill former death row inmate Sterling B. Williams (right) because he supposedly attacked a woman Connor knew 

Connor was also said to have asked Tate for help in recovering Connor's secretary's stolen car

Connor was also said to have asked Tate for help in recovering Connor’s secretary’s stolen car

The roommate had managed to fight off Williams’ efforts to choke her and gone for help for the woman who died.  

During the overheard phone conversation, Connor is said to have told Tate about how Williams attempted to strange a woman ‘I was seeing’ in Tulsa and then fatally stabbing her roommate. 

‘My friend…broke free and got away and ran,’ Connor said, according to authorities, adding ‘Just an FYI, brother.’ 

Tate then supposedly replied, ‘I got you, brother.’ 

Authorities learned of Connor’s alleged requests while listening in to Tate’s prison phone calls while investigating him for running a million-dollar drug ring out of prison

Authorities then said that Tate began making arrangement for having Connor’s secretary’s car theif beaten and Williams killed. 

Tate was sentenced to an additional 20 years on his life-without-parole sentence in September 2018 for running a million-dollar drug ring via smuggled cell phones while in Oklahoma State Penitentiary.   

In addition to allegedly putting out a hit on Williams, Connor was investigated following raid on two illicit massage parlors in Tulsa. 

In 2017, Connor came under further investigation after a raid on two illicit Tulsa massage parlors which authorities said sexual services and involved at least one juvenile, according to Tulsa World.  

As part of their investigation into Connor, authorities searched his law office in Jay, Oklahoma, and home in Grove, Oklahoma. 

In September 2017, Connor told The Oklahoman that he did not seek to have anybody beaten or killed and was not charged at the time. 

Connor’s grand jury indictment is expected to be unsealed on Monday. 

Just last Wednesday, Connor took to his Facebook page to share photos of himself drinking at sea while on a Turks and Caicos getaway with his partner and friends.

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