A Westminster woman was arrested Tuesday after trying to hire an undercover state trooper to kill her husband, police say.

Mary L. Gates, 46, of the 1400 block of Pinch Valley Road, tried to hire a hit man twice to kill her husband, Kevin L. Gates, 43, before police nabbed her using a trooper posing as a hit man, said Detective Sgt. Chuck Moore of the state police.

She was charged with solicitation to commit murder after offering the trooper $6,000 to kill her husband, Moore said.

Gates gave the undercover trooper a picture of her husband, with whom she lives, along with a copy of his work schedule, Moore said.

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She was being held at the Carroll County Detention Center on $100,000 bail Wednesday.

msilvestri@baltimoreexaminer.com