CHIPPEWA COUNTY, MI (AP)-- The state Attorney General's office criminal division is investigating allegations of a murder-for-hire plot involving an Aramark food service worker at a Chippewa County prison.
Attorney General Bill Schuette said Monday that his team is reviewing evidence and materials as part of an independent probe.
A request for the investigation was made by the state police post in Sault Ste. Marie. State police have said that a Kinross Correctional Facility inmate complained in July that a food-service worker approached him about arranging to kill an inmate held at another facility. The worker is banned from prison property.
Michigan contracts with Philadelphia-based Aramark for prison food service.
Aramark has said it wouldn't comment on an active police investigation.