Optician Tries to Set Up Hit on Wife

Son crying at trail

"When Mike Yuchnitz approached an employee at his discount eyewear store who had been illegally supplying him with the sedative Ambien and said he wanted to have his wife killed, he said their son was in on it, too, the employee told jurors Friday," reports the San Antonion Express-News. "Fidel Pantoja opted to recruit San Antonio police instead of a hit man, and later wore a secret recording device to help detectives build a murder-for-hire case against his boss, according to testimony in Yuchnitz's high-profile divorce trial." Read more.