Police: Wife Johnnie Melissa Burmeister, accused of asking someone to kill her husband

A Pickens County, Ga., woman accused of asking someone to kill her Phenix City husband was arrested Monday and will be brought to Columbus, police said.

Johnnie Melissa Burmeister, 40, faces a felony charge of criminal solicitation to commit murder, Columbus police Lt. Ronald Hastings said.

”She did request someone to kill her husband, Hastings said of Burmeister’s alleged proposition to have someone kill Michael D. Burmeister, 45.

Hastings doesn’t yet know when Johnnie Burmeister allegedly asked someone to kill her husband. He declined to say who she allegedly asked.

Authorities leaed about the accusation when an informant contacted police. Hastings doesn’t know if the informant is the same person Johnnie Burmeister allegedly asked to kill her husband.

Hastings first leaed of the accusations Sunday -- the same day Pickens County Sheriff’s Office deputies went to her Jasper, Ga., home in an attempt to arrest her.

Columbus police officers are expected to bring Johnnie Burmeister back to Columbus this week. A Recorder’s Court date hasn’t yet been scheduled, Hastings said.

If convicted of criminal solicitation to commit murder, she faces a sentence of one to five years in prison.