Murder-For-Hire Witness Charged With Molesting Teen

The informant in the attempted murder-for-hire case against a former Leelanau County prosecutor faces life in prison on charges that he molested a teenage girl.

Dale Fisher, 47, was charged Wednesday with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and with being a four-time habitual offender.

He had sex with a girl between the ages of 13 and 16 repeatedly between June 2013 and June 2014, according to the charges, and he allegedly told the girl the meetings were “their little secret” and that if she told anyone he would go to prison. The incidents allegedly took place at his home, at his mother’s home, in a van and on the side of a road.

Fisher was the star witness against Clarence Gomery, the 61-year-old former prosecutor who was charged and convicted for the July 2014 attempted murder of rival attorney Christopher Cooke. Fisher went to police and wore a wire after Gomery offered to pay Fisher to murder Cooke. Gomery is serving a six to 20 year prison sentence.

Fisher was recently released from prison on parole. He was convicted of first-degree felony retail fraud last year in an unrelated case. Fisher was also convicted to two counts of criminal sexual conduct in 1987.