Former Food Network Host Pleads No Contest To Murder Plot, Sentenced To Prison

Los Angeles judge Judge H. Chester Horn Jr. sentenced former tv chef Juan–Carlos Cruz to nine years in prison for trying to hire two homeless men to kill his wife and ordered the star of “Calorie Commando” and author of The Calorie Countdown Cookbook to pay nearly $2000 in restitution payments. Mr. Cruz must serve nearly five years before he can ask to be considered for parole.