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Ex-wife hired hitman to murder celebrity detox doc: Cops

homesafetytechpros — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:04:21 +0000

Inset: Dr. Hamid Mirshojae (Detox Woodland Hills). Background: The Los Angeles Police Department investigates the murder of Mirshojae, who was shot to death outside his detox clinic (KABC/YouTube).

The ex-wife of a California doctor who reportedly helped celebrities and athletes overcome addiction allegedly hired the man who killed her ex-husband in an ambush-style murder for “financial gain.”

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Monday that his office is charging 53-year-old Ahang Mirshojae with murder in the death of her ex-husband, Dr. Hamid Mirshojae.

“She’s been charged with, effectively, hiring a hitman,” Hochman said at a press conference.

Ahang Mirshojae is charged with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. According to Hochman, the ex-wife hired Evan Hardman, 41, to sneak up behind the doctor as he left his Woodland Hills practice in August and shoot him in the back of the head before a getaway driver, Ashley Rose Sweeting, 40, helped him flee the scene. Another defendant, 26-year-old Sarallah Jawed, also helped carry out the scheme by driving Hardman to Texas after the murder, prosecutors say.

“The horror and betrayal of this crime are beyond words,” Hochman said in a statement. “The depth of the deceit and violence involved in this case is chilling, and we will not rest until justice is served.”

Hardman is accused of intentionally killing the victim by “lying in wait.” Sweeting, who is charged with accessory after the fact, allegedly drove Hardman to and from the scene. Hardman and Sweeting waited until Dr. Mirshojae, 61, walked out of his office around 5:30 p.m. Aug. 23 and the alleged gunman carried out the murder as he was entering his car, prosecutors said.

Hochman also revealed that Ahang Mirshojae hired Hardman and Jawed to jump her ex-husband on May 3 and beat him with a blunt object, reportedly a baseball bat. Dr. Mirshojae and his ex-wife have had a decade-long legal battle over their divorce, Los Angeles NBC affiliate KNBC reported, citing legal documents. Prosecutors said she ordered the hit for “financial gain” but have not said what role the reported divorce battle may have played in the slaying. Hamid Mirshojae had since remarried.

Revelations of the doctor’s ex-wife allegedly orchestrating the murder have left his family stunned.

“Immediately I start thinking about my nephews and nieces. Their father was killed, and now their mother was the cause. I still can’t digest it. I don’t understand. Taking somebody’s life, it’s beyond me,” his younger brother Alireza Mirshojae told KNBC. “It’s like I can’t understand how could somebody feel so much anger and resentment, and I don’t understand how someone would feel to do something like this.”

As Law&Crime previously reported, officers arrested Hardman in the Houston area and Sweeting in the San Fernando Valley earlier this month.

According to his biography on his website, Dr. Mirshojae worked in addiction medicine for over a decade and provided emergency care for 20 years. It said he treated “celebrities, movie stars, athletes and many people of different walks of life.”

“He has helped thousands of patients achieve their goal of having a sober life,” the bio said.

Local CW affiliate KTLA reported the doctor hailed from Iran. Friends and former patients spoke highly of him.

“Everyone in the Woodland Hills area, even in LA, they know him because he was a really good doctor,” family friend Maryem Alaei told KTLA in the aftermath of the shooting. “Always laughing, always joking, always helping people.”

Said former patient Pamia Mazahrei: “I don’t know why bad things happen to people who are good in this world.”

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Inmate uses code words to put out hit using jail phone: Cops

homesafetytechpros — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:29:22 +0000

Jebea Johnson (Flagler County Jail).

A Florida man already behind bars is facing even more jail time after he allegedly tried to put out a hit on a fellow gang member.

Jebea Johnson, 22, has been in the Flagler County Jail since June on burglary and attempted robbery with a deadly firearm charges. About a month ago, deputies became aware of a series of phone calls between Johnson and his family members in which he tried to get one of them to post a message on social media that would put a hit on a man who wanted to leave the gang, the agency said in a press release.

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According to deputies, Johnson and the victim had been serving time together in the jail. Johnson had tried to recruit the man into the Kutt Throat Committee prison and street gang, per police, but the victim decided to leave the gang. Apparently upset, Johnson allegedly had a family member post a message on social media with “coded gang language” that would signal members on the outside to murder the victim.

Detectives interviewed family members who confirmed there was a message posted on Johnson’s behalf, but they were unaware it had an alternative meaning. Law enforcement scuttled the alleged plot before anyone could carry it out.

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Man paid hitman $5K to murder business rival, feds allege

homesafetytechpros — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 21:08:08 +0000

Makram Khashman, a wholesale produce retailer from South Florida, allegedly agreed to pay $5,000 to a “hitman” to kill a business rival. But the “hitman” was actually a federal agent and Khashman was arrested. (Brevard County Jail)

A produce wholesaler in South Florida allegedly hired a hitman to take out a business rival but the “killer” was actually a federal agent.

According to a criminal complaint, a confidential informant in February approached the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to say Makram Khashman asked if they would kill a business rival. The informant allegedly told Khashman they wouldn’t do it but knew someone who would. Instead, the informant went to the feds.

The informant and an undercover ATF agent met with Khashman on Feb. 29 at a parking lot in the city of Plantation, documents stated. Khashman, wearing a polo shirt with a logo for Garden Fresh Produce LLC., got into the car with the two others. The agent said he heard Khashman “had a problem,” the compliant said. Khashman allegedly described it as a “big problem,” saying his intended target had “taken over a million dollars and a business worth three million dollars” from him. The business rival had put Khashman and his family “in the streets,” causing him to lose his house, according to the complaint.

Khashman told the agent he was willing to do “whatever had to be done” and “wanted something easy, like an injection,” investigators allege. When the undercover agent asked Khashman directly if he wanted the rival dead, he affirmed and said “I don’t give a f—,” the complaint said.

The agent told Khashman that the price was usually between $5,000 and $10,000. Khashman allegedly said he would offer $5,000 because he had already talked to people who would do it for that price. The agent told Khashman “that he would need a photograph, name, address, daily routine, and any additional information” about the target.

Khashman said the rival had a big warehouse in Parkland, and he would get the “hitman” the other information later.

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On March 19, the agent and Khashman met again, documents stated. Khashman allegedly got into the undercover agent’s car wearing the same “Garden Fresh Produce LLC” polo shirt. According to the complaint, Khashman gave him the target’s name and other information such as where he lived, the type of cars he drove and where he worked, authorities said. He also said the rival had “put on weight because he was a rich man,” according to complaint.

That’s when Khashman handed the “hitman” $2,500 in cash as a down payment, investigators allege. He also told the agent the target typically carried a large amount of cash on Saturdays to pay employees. The agent said he would contact Khashman once the “job was done,” the complaint said.

Authorities later arrested Khashman and took him to the Broward County Jail where he’s being held without bond. Florida business records show Khashman is the owner of Garden Fresh Wholesale Produce and Provisions LLC in Delray Beach.

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Teen girl hired boyfriend, 2 others to kill her parents

homesafetytechpros — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:56:59 +0000

Nathaniel Maloney, in the jail jumpsuit, is led out of the Tazewell County Courthouse after he pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (WMBD)

A 20-year-old man and his 17-year-old girlfriend will spend the next six decades behind bars after they formulated a plan to kill her parents, court records show.

The couple, Dahlia Bolin and Nathaniel Maloney, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, at the Tazewell County courthouse near Peoria, Illinois.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Department responded around 9:15 p.m. on Oct. 22, 2021, to a home in Mackinaw for a shots fired call. When deputies arrived Bolin met them outside and told them someone shot her parents. Deputies went inside and found Rebecca and Douglas Bolin shot. First responders pronounced Rebecca Bolin dead while they rushed her husband to the hospital. Douglas Bolin told deputies an unknown person shot him five times. He survived.

Dahlia Bolin, then 15, told detectives she was in the basement when she heard footsteps followed by several gunshots. But after further questioning she admitted she set the whole thing up. She said she hatched a scheme with Maloney and their pals Sage Raeuber and Andre Street to murder her parents, the affidavit said. Dahlia Bolin gave Maloney and Street her father’s guns before the shooting. Raeuber allegedly drove Maloney and Street to the Bolin house. They went inside and shot the husband and wife who were sitting on the couch.

Prosecutors said at Tuesday’s sentencing hearing that the initial plan was just to kill Douglas Bolin and beat up his daughter to make it look like a botched robbery, local CBS affiliate WMBD reported. The four planned the whole thing out in a group text message thread, which authorities recovered, and FaceTime chats, prosecutors said. The younger Bolin had offered them $100,000 out of her parents’ life insurance policy if they carried out the killings. She and her father had been having problems which made her want him dead.

Maloney and Street entered through the basement of the house where they saw Dahlia Bolin. Prosecutors reportedly said the other suspects described her as “giddy, and almost jolly like on Christmas Day.”

Instead of following the plan, Maloney and Street wounded Douglas Bolin and killed Rebecca Bolin and ran away before they could make it look like a robbery, according to prosecutors. Raeuber served as the getaway driver. The quartet were in custody by the next day.

A judge sentenced Maloney to 66 years in prison. Dahlia Bolin and Street, now 19, were juveniles at the time of the murder but were charged as adults. The judge sentenced Dahlia Bolin to 60 years in prison and Street to 55 years behind bars. Raeuber, 21, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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