Nashville Man Planned To Kill Witness: Feds

NASHVILLE, TN -- A federal grand jury indicted a 48-year-old Nashville man in a complicated murder-for-hire plot in which he planned to fatally overdose a witness.

According to the indictment, George Anhalt Jr was charged in June with conspiring to possess and distribute heroin and meth in 2017 and then engineered a plot to kill a witness he believed planned to testify against him.

Federal prosecutors allege that in late May 2018, Anhalt contacted an undercover DEA agent to hatch a plan to kill the witness. Anhalt allegedly said he would provide two doses of drugs to the witness, whom he believed was a drug addict, with the second dose triggering an overdose. Anhalt allegedly told the undercover agent he would provide the two doses for $1,000 and two guns.

According to the indictment, Anhalt gave the undercover agent one dose of heroin and a second that was a mix of heroin and an anti-psychotic in a meeting at a Nashville hotel June 10. He was then arrested by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents in the hotel room.

Anhalt is charged with obstruction of justice; possession and distribution of heroin; being a felon in possession of a firearm; and possessing a firearm during the commission of a federal drug crime.

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