The first plot involved the ex-husband of Quinn-s girlfriend. The ex-husband was accused of raping his daughter and was later convicted of first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child.
Quinn, 37, of Greystone Road, was originally arrested and charged with consiracy to commit the assault in December 2002 after a four-month investigation by the New York State Police Department. On Dec. 23, 2002, he allegedly paid $500 to what he thought was a hit man to "cut the girl's father in the groin area and sexually mutilate him," according to the Queens district attorney-s office. The hit man was actually an undercover state police investigator.
The investigator and Quinn met on three occasions to discuss the plot, and Quinn agreed to pay $1,000 for the stabbing. He was arrested on Dec. 30.
After Quinn was arrested, the second plot, involving murder-for-hire, began in January 2003. Sullivan Correctional Facility officials in Fallsburg, N.Y., learned that Quinn had written letters to more than 100 inmates, including convicted Son of Sam murderer David Berkowitz, soliciting the murder of a then 27-year-old inmate serving a 10-year sentence for rape. The inmate is a key witness in Quinn's assault-for-hire case, according to the Queens D. A.
The Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau of the District Attorney's Office, the State Department of Corrections Inspector General and the state police set up a "sting" operation in which an undercover state police investigator posing as an inmate willing to carry out the murder corresponded with Quinn. On April 14, 2003, the undercover officer sent Quinn a letter saying he would kill the inmate and asked for a picture of the target.
Quinn sent the picture and other items such as Hershey kisses, symbolizing the "kiss of death," to indicate that he wanted the inmate killed, as requested by the undercover investigator. In June 2003, Quinn sent two packages to the investigator with items that had been requested as payment for the murder. The packages were mailed separately from post offices in Rockville Centre and Hicksville and included various items such as Crayola crayons, beef jerky, Cup O' Noodle soup, Newport cigarettes and candy.
A search warrant executed at Quinn's Belle Harbor residence turned up photographs of the inmate, mailing labels, certified mail receipts and correspondence from the undercover investigator.
Justice Kron indicated that he would impose a state prison sentence of one to three years on May 27.
