KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A suburban St. Louis man is accused in a court filing of trying to hire someone to kill the purported victim in a sex trafficking case and a federal prosecutor.
Thirty-two-year-old Bradley Cook of Kirkwood is one of five people charged in Kansas City with torturing and mutilating a runaway teen who authorities say was a sex slave for years.
A statement prosecutors filed with a federal appeals court in St. Louis says he hatched an alleged murder-for-hire scheme while he was at a private jail for federal inmates in Leavenworth, Kan.
The Kansas City Star reported that Cook has not been charged with attempting to hire a hit man.
Cook's lawyer, Carter Collins Law, responded in a court filing Friday afternoon, calling the new allegations "dramatic," "incendiary" and "extraordinarily inflammatory."