Girlfriend sentenced to 2 years for part in 'boob job' murder plot

A judge Monday sentenced a 21-year-old woman to two years in prison for her role in a bungled murder-for-hire plot in which her boyfriend was accused of trying to have his mother killed.

Sophia Nicole Alsept wept as 4th Judicial District Judge David S. Prince ordered her to the jury box until El Paso County sheriff's deputies came, handcuffed her and led her away.

At the last moment, she took a ring off her finger and handed it to her lawyer, Matthew Werner, who gave it to Alsept's friend.

Werner had asked the judge to sentence Alsept to probation, contending she had been the victim of domestic violence committed by her then-boyfriend, Nikita Lee Weis.

Weis, 19, was charged with hiring two men to kill his mother so that he could sell her car on the Internet and use the money to pay for Alsept's rent and a "boob job," according to the arrest affidavit.

"This was a brutal plan," Werner said of the plot, in which one man dressed in black burst into Hyun Sook Weis' Fountain home and hit her over the head with a miniature baseball bat.

Investigators said their plan had been to wrap her body in plastic and dump her in the desert in New Mexico or Arizona. But Hyun Weis foiled their plan by setting off her car alarm and scaring her attacker away.

At the time of the Sept. 25, 2008, attack, Nikita Weis was out on bond on charges for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting Alsept 12 days earlier.

Werner argued that Weis had subjected Alsept to mental and physical abuse during their relationship.

"She was conditioned, your honor, to do whatever Nikita Weis said," Werner said.

But Deputy District Attorney Gail Post countered that Alsept had an active role in the plot.

"I don't have a dispute that they were in a dysfunctional relationship," Post said. "What I do believe is that Ms. Alsept is not the passive person that the court is being led to believe."

Alsept told the judge "I'm very sorry for Mrs. Weis ... This has been very disturbing to me." She described her unsuccessful efforts to get away from Nikita Weis.

Prince, however, said he did not believe probation was appropriate. Under a plea bargain reached last month, he could have sentenced her to up to three years in prison. He gave her two, noting that the other defendants in the case have gotten far more serious punishment. Nikita Weis was sentenced to 12 years, court records show.

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