A Lawrence woman was sentenced to serve nearly six years in federal prison Friday for soliciting someone to kill her ex-boyfriend in December 2005.

U.S. District Court Judge Julie A. Robinson handed down the sentence in Topeka to Krista M. Harris, 21. Harris had pleaded guilty in September to using a telephone to negotiate a murder-for-hire deal.

According to U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren’s office, Harris told a confidential informant, who worked with investigators, that she would hire him to kill her former boyfriend, Malcolm Glover. The informant then set up a phone call for her to talk with an investigator, who “pretended to make arrangements to provide an untraceable gun to be used in the murder,” according to Melgren’s office.

On Dec. 2, 2005, a phone call was recorded of Harris arranging to meet the investigator in the parking lot of the Dillons grocery store on 23rd Street, where she was to pick up a gun and deliver a photo of the man she wanted killed.

She agreed to pay the agent by giving him about $120 of crack cocaine.

Melgren said Harris declined an offer to have Glover beaten up instead of killed. Lawrence police officers investigated the case with the help of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.