The Dorchester man accused of making an attempt to rent a hitman to take out his spouse and her boyfriend has pleaded not responsible to the 2 murder-for-hire fees.
Mohammed Chowdhury, 46, appeared through Zoom for his arraignment earlier than U.S. District Magistrate Judge Paul G. Levenson at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
He entered his not-guilty pleas via earbud headphones that picked up the loud voices of others additionally showing for digital hearings on the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, R.I., and needed to be stopped from asking too many questions within the open court docket proceedings as a substitute of in a video sidebar along with his legal professional, Joshua Hanye.
Chowdhury, the affidavit makes clear, kind of bungled his approach via varied hitmen and particulars of the deliberate killing. The unnamed preliminary FBI supply mentioned that Chowdhury got here to him with the job supply after one other would-be hitman “took the money and did not follow through.”
The new man, an unnamed informer, gave the FBI Chowdhury’s quantity and an spy took it from there.
Over the course of a number of in-person restaurant conferences, textual content messages and calls over the encrypted service Telegram, in accordance with the affidavit, Chowdhury, who works a minimum-wage job, waffled over value, cost plans and what he truly needed the person he believed to be a hitman to do.
Chowdhury, who in October 2019 admitted to enough information in Roxbury municipal court docket that he violated a restraining order positioned towards him by his spouse and the meant goal of this case, initially simply needed to “punish” the targets. He needed them overwhelmed badly however organized in a approach the place “no one would think he was coordinating it.” The faux hitman mentioned no cube: that they do homicide or they do nothing.
And so Chowdhury allegedly agreed to have his spouse and her lover killed for $4,000 a pop, with a $500 down cost paid proper earlier than his arrest.
Chowdhury’s subsequent listening to is scheduled for March 27 at 12 p.m.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”