(FOX40.COM) — One of three people connected to a murder-for-hire plot in Northern California pleaded guilty on Friday for conspiracy to use interstate commerce facilities as part of the plan to kill someone, according to the United States Department of Justice.•Video Above: How to report a public safety threat
Court documents revealed that Shaminderjit Singh Sandhu, 51, of Tracy, conspired with Jagninder Singh Boparai, 49, of Manteca, and Ramesh Kumar Birla Jr., 47, of Dublin, to murder someone referred to as Victim 2. In February 2023, the three of them repeatedly met with a person they believed to be a hitman at a Starbucks in Manteca.
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Unbeknownst to Sandhu and his co-defendants, the hitman was a confidential informant working for the FBI, according to the DOJ. On Feb. 17, 2024, Boparai told the supposed hitman that the first job involved the assault of someone referred to as Victim 1, and once he proved his trustworthiness, he would be given another job.
The following day, the DOJ said Boparai met the confidential informant again and offered to pay $6,000 for the assault of Victim 1. In March 2023, in the presence of Birla and another individual, Boparai met with the confidential informant, and Boparai gave the confidential informant $1,000 as a down payment for the assault.
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Shortly after, the confidential informant showed Boparai a staged photo of Victim 1 lying on the ground covered in bruises, dirt, and blood to indicate the assault had occurred. Boparai said he liked the photo and told the confidential informant that he had two other “jobs,” one of which involved robbing a business, and the other involved making a person “disappear.”…