A Whitley County man is accused of plotting a kidnapping from behind bars.
Police say Doyle Fox tried to get a fellow inmate to help carry out the kidnapping of his niece.
Authorities say the plan was to get the child, then blackmail her mother for $50,000 because she worked at a bank.
Detectives say the plot was foiled when the inmate told police about it and wore a wire to record jail conversations with Fox.
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“According to the inmate, he was supposed to find a woman to watch the baby, then get the baby, then Doyle was supposed to contact the mother and tell her she needs to pay 50 thousand to get the baby back,” Detective Bobby Freeman with the Williamsburg Police Department told LEX 18.
Police say that Fox only had 10 months left to serve on a 12 year sentence from a stand-off he was involved in back in 2001.
If convicted on this case, police say Fox faces several more years in jail.
