An alleged hit man accused in the death of an Atlanta DJ’s wife is free on bail.
Adrian Harley, 34, of Alpharetta bonded out of the Fulton County jail Saturday, on a $235,000 bond, according to jail records.
Harley is accused of shooting to death 30-year-old Tiffany Jackson-Pugh just before Thanksgiving in what East Point police describe as a murder-for-hire plot involving the woman’s husband, Andre Jason Pugh.
Harley and Pugh, who was known to Club Onyx patrons as DJ Awesome, are lifelong friends. As of Monday, Pugh, 34, was still in jail on murder and related charges.
Fulton Magistrate Karen Woodson set bond for both men after a hearing last week. She did not disclose her reasons but defense lawyers argued neither man has a violent history and the case against them is circumstantial. Previous charges against Harley are related to a DUI case and Pugh had two misdemeanor theft charges a decade ago.
Woodson also required the surrendering of passports — Harley has family in England — and wearing a monitoring device and a 24-hour curfew except for work as requirements for bond.
Jackson-Pugh's family has set up a website to raise money for her and Pugh's 2-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter.
Jackson-Pugh was killed in her bed on Nov. 23 around 6 a.m. A surveillance video put a car similar — down to a broken parking light —to Harley’s at the scene at the time a burglar alarm went off at Pugh’s East Point house on Lake Haven Way, according to Detective Allyn Glover.
Calls between the two men’s cellphones also used cell towers in the area despite Harley’s claim he was in the Alpharetta. The calls came shortly before and shortly after the burglar alarm.
When the alarm company contacted Pugh, who worked all night as disc jockey, he told them to turn the alarm off because he was afraid it would wake his children, Glover said.
Police also found Pugh's actions and comments to the 911 operator and responding officers suspicious. He was listed as a suspect on the police report.
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