A Clark County Jail inmate previously suspected of attempting to hire another inmate to kill a witness is now accused in multiple murder-for-hire plots.
Raymond J. Femling, 33, appeared Friday in Clark County Superior Court to face two new allegations of solicitation to commit murder.
Femling is one of three men accused of luring a man to a Vancouver home before assaulting and robbing him Dec. 26, 2014. In that case, he’s charged with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree robbery, second-degree assault and second-degree theft.
The co-defendants, Scott William Thomas, a 25-year-old transient, and Jason E. Stinson, 31, of Vancouver, pleaded guilty and were sentenced last year.
All three men allegedly lured the victim to a residence in the Image neighborhood because they assumed he was a “snitch.” Stinson invited the man over, and when he arrived, Femling and Thomas repeatedly punched and kicked him, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Femling then touched the victim’s arm with a hot methamphetamine pipe, which caused second-degree burns, the affidavit said.
They eventually let the man go, but threatened to kill him if he “talked to anybody,” court records say.
Then in June, Femling appeared in court for allegedly talking with and agreeing to pay another inmate “to make sure (the victim) doesn’t show up for court” to testify against him. He offered to pay the man with two motorcycles and a pickup valued at approximately $90,000. Femling recruited the inmate to kill the man because he was scheduled to be released from jail soon and isn’t from the local area, according to court records.
Femling gave the inmate a detailed map of where the man was last known to reside, according to the affidavit.
In the most recent accusations, Femling allegedly tried to solicit multiple inmates between March and December to kill the victim, a separate probable cause affidavit shows.
Femling asked one inmate to take the man into the mountains and kill him and asked another to make him “disappear,” the affidavit said.
During Friday’s hearing, Judge Scott Collier increased Femling’s bail from $400,000 to $700,000.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
