Ivan Flores's Case Summary

This article is about a man who is being accused of solicitation. Solicitation is to ask, command, urge or advise another person to commit a crime. The suspect is already in jail on a criminal sexual abuse case. Ivan Flores is being charged for solicitation of murder and solicitation of murder for hire according to prosecutors. A $500,000 bail was set on his new charges. Prosecutors say that the suspect Ivan Flores was talking to two confidential sources at the Cook County Corrections department and when talking them he asked if they knew any “ motorcycle gangs to kill the victim.” Flores gave those two confidential sources addresses, schedules, and personal information to kill those victims. Flores was offering $5,000 for each person killed. Flores admitted in a videotape to an undercover officer that he was offering $5,000 to kill …show more content…
Why are the charges that are set on Ivan Flores so weak? Flores has arranged to kill two people and there saying that he can get out on bail. The fact that they are allowing him to go on the streets and hunt these people down is absurd. The police department and court even have proof of him trying to plan these killings. Imagine how the 15 year old girl and the mother feel. They must be scarred for life that a guy can potentially get a jail and kill them. If I was the mother I would fight for a longer sentence for Ivan Flores. In our criminal justice system I believe that solicitation is taken too lightly. People’s lives are at risk and they are giving him the opportunity to get out of jail. Also it’s not even like they don’t have proof of him trying to kill these people, they have video recordings of him planning out these killings. I want to know why they take solicitation so lightly? I