The statement said detectives received information Thursday that Lambesis had solicited someone to kill his wife, who lives in nearby Encinitas.

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He was arrested without incident at a business in Oceanside and taken to the Encinitas Station and booked into the Vista Detention Facility.

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Authorities said Tuesday that Tim Lambesis tried to contract an undercover detective posing as a killer for hire to murder his estranged wife, who lives in Encinitas, California.

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When the last renter moved out of the bungalow in 2009, Ms. Prettyman, living in a condo in nearby Encinitas, took up her father's offer to fix up the house for her.

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