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Detective describes kidnap plot in murder trial

Ronald Thornton said he wanted to hire a babysitter and he would pay the sitter with "bricks," a Suffolk detective testified Tuesday.

What Thornton meant, Det. Thomas Hess testified at Thornton's murder trial in Riverhead, was he wanted someone to kidnap the daughter of an exotic dancer who had agreed to testify against him. And the kidnapper would be paid with cocaine, Hess said.

"He...

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