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Brown Sentenced to 40 Years in Murder-for-Hire Case
Caren Taylor Pressley Brown, a former Fauquier County resident who pleaded guilty in March to two counts of attempted kill-for-hire/capital murder was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison.Court records show a Williamsburg/James City County Circuit Court judge sentenced Brown to 20 years in prison on each count. However, the judge suspended one term in its entirety and all but eight years of the second term.
Brown will be on supervised probation for 18 years upon her release.
She initially pleaded not guilty, but changed the plea the day a jury trial was scheduled to begin in Williamsburg/James City County Court.
Brown was arrested Aug. 1, 2008 after she gave an undercover Virginia State Police agent a $2,000 down payment to kill her ex-boyfriend and his wife.
Brown also provided the agent — who was posing as a hit man — the couple's address, direction to their home and pictures of them.
In a criminal complaint, police said Brown told the agent she was angry over a custody situation involving her son and asked that the hit be done quickly.
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