SAN ANTONIO – Local businessman Michael Yuchnitz wanted a would-be hit man to fatally shoot his wife, an arrest affidavit stated.
"I guess just shoot her," the affidavit stated.
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During a telephone conversation last week between Yuchnitz, 57, and an informant, the optics and tattoo shop owner wanted his wife, Tina, killed to make the slaying look like a robbery, the affidavit stated.
"He was giving directions to where his wife would be, how much money she would have on her," Officer Matthew Porter, a spokesman with the San Antonio Police Department, said.
Yuchnitz said that the best time to kill his wife would when she traveled to a card game, the affidavit stated.
Yuchnitz paid the informant $5,000 as a down payment, but the would-be hit man instead went to police, who arrested the businessman Saturday, Porter said.
According to court documents, Tina Yuchnitz filed for divorce Friday. But as he was escorted by police Saturday, Michael Yuchnitz denied knowledge of the impending divorce.
Michael Yuchnitz was being held in the Bexar County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bond on a charge of conspiracy to commit capital murder.