A Jamestown man has been charged with making false statements and representations to the FBI. Federal prosecutors say 38-year-old Tyrell Fuqua-Hayes told FBI agents that in January, he met a man who was arrested in another federal case while they were in custody together at the same jail. Fuqua-Hayes claimed that the man provided him with contact information and advised Fuqua-Hayes that he would be reaching out to him. Then in May, Fuqua-Hayes allegedly told the FBI that he was receiving text messages from the man he had met in jail, indicating that the man wanted to pay him $5,000 to kill witnesses in that man's case. However, Hayes allegedly later admitted that he created the text messages himself and lied about the recent conversations with the man. Fuqua-Hayes faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
