Meagan Foley Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Commit Murder

A 29-year-old former bank teller has pleaded guilty to helping plan a 2008 murder at a Groton hotel.

Meagan Foley, of Shaw Street, pleaded guilty today in the to conspiracy to commit murder. Foley, who is represented by Middletown lawyer Averum Sprecher, will be sentenced on Sept. 12. The agreed upon sentence is 15 years in prison, suspended after five years, with three years’ probation.

Foley has been imprisoned at the York Correctional Institution since her arrest on March 2, 2009.

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The state accused Foley of complicity in the death of 33-year-old Jamel Campbell, who was shot to death at the Ramada Inn in Groton on Dec. 10, 2008. Foley said she introduced Campbell and 33-year-old Ryan Wright of Ocean Ave. and was friends with both, but that the men’s relationship soured after Wright suspected that Campbell had an affair with his girlfriend while Wright was incarcerated.

Foley said Campbell told her there was no truth to the suspicion, but that he stole Wright’s Mercedes in retaliation. She said both men showed her guns they planned to use in case of confrontations.

Foley, who testified at Wright’s trial, said Wright told her he wanted to kill Campbell and that he considered doing it at Campbell’s girlfriends apartment or as Campbell left Foley’s residence. Foley said she suggested that Wright kill Campbell in a hotel since she was worried about the murder happening outside the house she shared with her mother and brother.

At the trial, prosecutors presented a number of . Foley told Campbell she was having problems with her boyfriend and asked to meet at the hotel. When Campbell said he was getting hungry and planned to leave, Foley texted Wright that Campbell was getting anxious and told Campbell that she was nearby.

A jury found Wright guilty of conspiracy to commit murder last year, but deadlocked on the murder charge. Wright was convicted of murder at a second trial and sentenced to the maximum sentence of 60 years in prison in May.

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