San Diego
Bail was set Tuesday at $100,000 for a Santee man charged with conspiring to commit a murder-for-hire in Oklahoma.
Robert Brian Boeckman, 29, pleaded innocent to the charge in a detention hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Irma Gonzalez in San Diego.
Boeckman was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy, soliciting others to commit a murder, and interstate transportation of a firearm.
Also indicted with him were his father, Robert George Boeckman, of Kingfisher, Okla., Vernon James, Charles Worack, and Patrick Innie, all of San Diego.
Boeckman is accused of giving James a $3,500 down payment to go to Oklahoma and kill former state legislator and attorney Robert Barr III, 46.
Barr was wounded from a shotgun blast on Aug. 7, 1985, in the bedroom of his Dover, Okla. home. Barr had sued Boeckman and his father for $1.7 million for fraud in a dispute over some debts they owed Barr.
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