By FRANK ANDRUSCAVAGE
A Sheppton woman was sentenced Tuesday to state prison for trying to hire someone in February 2013 to kill her landlady, who was trying to evict her, and her landlady's fiance.
Jamielynn Reilly, 37, of 885 Centre St., was ordered by Schuylkill County Judge John E. Domalakes to serve two to 10 years in prison on a charge of solicitation to commit aggravated assault and be on probation for 10 years after being released from jail.
She must also have mental health treatment, have no contact with the victims and will receive credit for the time she already served in prison.
In February, Reilly pleaded guilty to two counts of solicitation to commit aggravated assault and prosecutors dropped the remaining charges of solicitation to commit criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit burglary, conspiracy to commit criminal trespass and conspiracy to commit simple assault.
On the second count of solicitation to commit aggravated assault, Domalakes handed down the same sentence but ordered it be served concurrently.
The victims, Brian J. Treco, and Kelly Feeko, also of Sheppton, addressed the court before sentencing.
Feeko said she and Reilly had been close friends for several years and Reilly's actions were "very devastating and hurtful."
Feeko said she thinks Reilly has built up anger inside.
"I fear her getting out of jail ⦠I feel she would try this again," she said.
Treco said the events changed his life forever, adding there is always a possibility that Reilly will try and have him and his fiancée killed again.
"I will always be afraid, that is my life now," he said.
Psychiatrist Dr. Larry Rotenberg, called by defense attorney Kent Watkins, said his evaluation determined Reilly is not a danger to the community and called her a person with "borderline intelligence" and having a "dependent personality disorder."
He said Reilly is not a bad person or an evil person but a person who is mentally ill and in need of further psychiatric treatment.
Rotenberg, agreeing with Watkins, said the sentence handed down by the court should be time served, the 391 days Reilly has already spent in jail, along with psychiatric and anger management treatment.
Assistant district attorney Debra Smith told Domalakes that Reilly should receive the maximum sentence of 5 to 10 years because of the "violent nature of the act" and the fact she tried to have two human beings killed.
In handing down his sentence, Domalakes said the severity of Reilly's intent to have Treco and Feeko killed cannot be put aside. He also said the woman has shown no remorse for her actions.
In his arrest affidavits, Schuylkill County Detective Dennis Clark said the incident came to light when detectives were contacted by East Union Township police who learned that Reilly was looking for someone to kill Treco and Feeko and had allegedly told a man named Rafael Lopez that she would pay to have them killed.
Clark said detectives started an undercover operation and met with Lopez and the two victims and learned about the eviction and contract offered by Reilly.
Lopez then called Reilly and handed the telephone to an undercover detective who told the woman the matter will be taken care of. Lopez again spoke to Reilly and asked whom she wanted killed first, "Brian or Kelly," Clark said.
Reilly replied "her," referring to Feeko, the detective said.
Clark said arrangements were made for Lopez and the detective to pick Reilly up so she could show them where Feeko lives.
Once Reilly was picked up and again said she wanted Treco and Feeko killed, Clark said the detective asked the woman what she wanted the crime to look like.
Reilly said to make the killings look like a burglary because Treco and Feeko had accused her of that.
When asked how she wanted the two killed, Clark said Reilly told the detective, "Just put a bullet in them, a bullet to the head or chest."