By Andrea Canning and Jessica Hopper
ABC News
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — Police admitted that as part of an elaborate sting operation they lied to a Florida woman on trial for allegedly hiring a hit man to murder her husband. The wife’s defense has claimed that she thought the whole thing was part of a reality TV show her husband wanted to do.
Boynton Beach Police Sgt. Paul Sheridan testified Tuesday that he misled Dalia Dippolito about the purpose of the waiver she signed for the police sting, to be taped for the fictional reality show, “Cops.”
When asked if he lied to the woman about what the waiver was for, he said, “yes.”
Dalia Dippolito is facing charges of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. In 2009, she allegedly hired an undercover police officer posing as a hit man to kill her husband, Michael Dippolito.
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