Mom, 18, used fake hitman website to try and kill her toddler son
Paez was charged with first-degree solicitation of murder and third-degree using a communications device for unlawful use and she is currently being held in the Miami-Dade jail.The child is in the safe custody of his family.
Robert Innes, who operates RentAHitman.com, tipped off the police after deeming Paez's request too urgent to ignore.
'The ability to research names and addresses and verify the intended target lived in a particular address. That to me is a red flag. If that information is corroborated, to me that is something that needs to be looked at and that's why I referred it,' he told NBC Miami.
Innes said the Miami-Dade police did not at first give serious consideration to his tip off, and threatened to give him a cease-and-desist letter if he persisted.
Both the 'Service Request Form' and 'Careers Form' of the fake hitman website have been used several times to arrest people.
Earlier this year, a Tennessee Air National Guardsman was arrested after making an application to be a hitman on the site.
In 2021, a woman from Michigan admitted to using the website to hire a hitman for her ex-husband, agreeing to pay out $5,000.