Doc pleading guilty to gun charges

A northern Indiana doctor is pleading guilty to charges in connection with what prosecutors say was a plot to kill his estranged wife and two other people.

Dr. Lesley Marlin Scholl of Roanoke would receive a 15-year prison sentence under the deal with federal prosecutors in which he pleads guilty to illegally transferring a firearm silencer and possessing unregistered machine guns.

Scholl had offices in Elkhart and Goshen before he was arrested in January.

Prosecutors said Scholl agreed to pay a man $200,000 for each of three killings; his estranged wife, her attorney and a doctor with whom he had an ongoing legal fight.

The plea agreement requires Scholl to give to his wife much of his collection of more than 300 firearms, including 16 machine guns.