An inmate at the Centralia Correctional Center has been charged with soliciting the murder of a DuPage County judge and an assistant state's attorney. DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin told the Beacon News that 53-year-old Gordon Vanderark solicited the murder of two DuPage County officials and two other private citizens. The former Wheaton man has been in the Centralia Correctional Center for the past year. Vanderark was sentenced by Judge Blanche Fawell on December 20th of last year to 16 years in prison for a Class X felony aggravated DUI charge. Berlin told the newspaper that between December of last year and Tuesday of this week Vanderark solicited a hitman to kill Fawell and Assistant State's Attorney Audrey Anderson from his jail cell. Vanderark is also accused of soliciting the murder of his ex-wife and an acquaintance. Berlin said Vanderark had agreed to pay the hitman $70,000 and had already paid a $2,000 advance. Vanderark is scheduled to appear in DuPage County Court on the charges December 12th. - http://goo.gl/ntSkK
