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A jury has found a man not guilty of offering a $10,000 bounty over Snapchat for the murder of a top Border Patrol commander who led an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area last year. Juan Espinoza Martinez faced one count of murder-for-hire in the first criminal trial stemming from the Chicago immigration operation. Prosecutors alleged Espinoza Martinez used Snapchat to solicit the death of Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official behind the crackdown. But defense attorneys say Espinoza Martinez didn’t have that kind of money and the messages amounted to “neighborhood gossip.”