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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2019/11/1573166344160.png" alt="Brock is the co-owner of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bigesvaporshop.com/locations/">Big E Vapor Shops</a>, which has 13 locations in Kansas, seven of them in Wichita, three locations in Oklahoma and one in Belton, Missouri-photo Logan Co. Jail" />
 <figcaption>Brock is the co-owner of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bigesvaporshop.com/locations/">Big E Vapor Shops</a>, which has 13 locations in Kansas, seven of them in Wichita, three locations in Oklahoma and one in Belton, Missouri-photo Logan Co. Jail</figcaption>
 </figure>OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A northwestern Oklahoma man was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison for trying to have the boyfriend of a former employee killed in Oklahoma City, according to court documents.Vernon Wayne Brock, 71, of Alva, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City to 87 months in prison.Brock&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/9a5d31e377a24b2ea56a961b041a0cf8">admitted</a>&nbsp;in a signed plea agreement in November 2019 that he offered $5,000 to a former business partner in Maize, Kansas, to have the unidentified man killed after the former employee ended a sexual relationship with Brock.Brock was&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/dd35481a45694ab1b46ef4356fbceca2">arrested and charged</a>&nbsp;in April 2019 after giving the business partner a $5,000 check during a meeting at a cafe in Harper, Kansas.Court documents say the female employee, who is not identified, had worked for Brock, who owned vape shops in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, and a cattle ranch.

Kan. vape shop owner sentenced in murder-for-hire plot