HAMILTON — A township man has been accused of arranging for New York's alleged "cannibal cop" to kidnap a woman, stuff her into a suitcase and deliver her to the Hamilton resident so he could rape and kill her.

Michael Vanhise, 23, was arrested yesterday by FBI agents, who said he negotiated the woman’s abduction in a series of e-mails with Gilberto Valle, 28, a New York City police officer who was arrested in October on charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

“Michael Vanhise engaged in conduct that reads like a script for a bad horror film, but fortunately, neither he nor his co-conspirators were able to act out the twisted conspiracies described in the complaint in real-life,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. “His arrest ... is the second in this bone-chilling case, but we are not finished.”

Valle was accused of plotting to kidnap, torture, “slow cook” and eat women he tracked down, partly through alleged illegal use of law enforcement databases.

Vanhise was charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping but not cannibalism. The alleged e-mail negotiations occurred in February and March of last year, officials said.

Vanhise allegedly comparison-shopped, asking other people via e-mail to kidnap, rape and murder different women and children.

In one instance, he sent a photograph and address of a child to potential conspirators, who said they were interested in abducting the youth, the FBI said.

The FBI called the Mercer High School graduate’s alleged plot to kill the woman an act of “depravity.”

“Just make sure she doesn’t die before I get her,” Vanhise allegedly wrote to Valle last February.

“No need to worry,” Valle wrote back, according to the complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan.

“She will be alive. It’s a short drive to you. I think I would rather not get involved in the rape. You paid for her. She is all yours and I don’t want to be tempted the next time I abduct a girl.”

Valle sought $5,000 for the abduction and Vanhise tried to knock the price down to $4,000, officials said.

“Is there anything I can trade you that might knock down the price a bit,” he allegedly wrote in an exchange of e-mails.

Vanhise was rebuffed by Valle, who said “I am putting my neck on the line here,” the criminal complaint reads. Valle also sent Vanhise a picture of the Manhattan woman he intended to drug and bring to Vanhise’s home, the FBI said.

During an FBI interview, the would-be victim said she knew Valle, but did not know him well.

“It is going to be so hard to restrain myself when I knock her out, but I am aspiring to be a professional kidnapper and that’s business,” Valle wrote to Vanhise, according to the complaint.

"But I will really get off on knocking her out, tying her hands and bare feet and gagging her. Then she will be stuffed into a large piece of luggage and wheeled out to my van."

Valle's lawyer has argued his client's plans to abduct and eat women were a fantasy rather than real intention.

A woman who identified herself as Vanhise’s aunt yesterday afternoon at the Hamilton home where Vanhise was arrested said family did not know where Vanhise had been taken.

“All we know is, he’s cooperating,” she said.

Luz Torres lived a few doors down from Vanhise’s city address, and said she remembered the young man living with a woman who was his wife or girlfriend.

“They were very quiet people. They just said ‘Hi,’” Torres said. “Her more than him. He was more serious.”

Vanhise was due to be arraigned yesterday in Manhattan federal court on $250,000 bail, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said.

Valle’s trial is set to begin later this month.

Valle, a six-year police veteran, was arrested on Oct. 24, two days before the FBI searched Vanhise’s home.

During the search, Vanhise allegedly admitted to FBI agents that he sent the e-mails.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office described Vanhise as a Hamilton resident but public records list him as living on the 100 block of South Logan Avenue in Trenton.

His aunt said he resided at both addresses.

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