RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — From a prison cell, a gang leader known as “Godfather” ordered his henchmen to kill the father of an assistant district attorney by stuffing a sock in his mouth and putting a plastic bag over his head, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
Prosecutors told jurors at the opening of Kelvin Melton’s trial that they wiretapped a cellphone he used inside a North Carolina prison. They say the recording catches Melton ordering gangsters to kill the father of a North Carolina assistant DA in 2014. That state prosecutor had helped convict Melton in a 2012 case that sent him to life in prison.
