Irvin Visits Hit-Man Solicitor

Nearly a year after Johnnie Hernandez was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill Michael Irvin, the Dallas Cowboys receiver spent more than hour meeting with the former policeman in prison.

What was said remained between them. Irvin arrived at the Price Daniel Unit in Snyder, about 80 miles southeast of Lubbock, in a stretch limousine, the Snyder Daily News reported.

Hernandez was arrested June 27, 1996, on charges of solicitation of capital murder for paying a man $2,960 to kill Irvin. The man was actually an undercover drug agent and the transaction was videotaped. Hernandez is serving two six-year terms prison terms concurrently for solicitation of capital murder and an unrelated bribery charge.

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