A Spokane medical doctor accused of hiring someone on the dark web to kidnap his estranged wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of threats in interstate commerce as part of a plea deal.
Ronald Ilg, who has been a licensed physician in Washington state since 2003, originally pleaded not guilty to one count of attempted kidnapping in May 2021, KREM-TV reported. As a result of his guilty pleas Wednesday, charges of cyberstalking, attempted kidnapping, damage to a computer and witness tampering were dismissed. Ilg’s estranged wife in 2021 gave investigators text messages in which she accused him of trying to hire someone to carry out a weeklong kidnapping, while he was in Mexico, court documents said.
Ilg faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced in November. (Lewison Tribune)
