- A Massachusetts man was arrested last week and prosecutors accused him of trying to kill his wife.
- Mohammed Chowdhury, 46, was charged with one count of murder-for-hire and has yet to enter a plea.
A Boston man is facing 10 years in prison after he was arrested by federal agents and accused of concocting a plot to kill his wife and her lover, prosecutors said.
The man, identified as 46-year-old Mohammed Chowdhury, was charged with one count of murder-for-hire, the Massachusetts US Attorney's Office said in a January 18 statement. He has yet to enter a plea and is detained pending trial, court documents show.
An undercover federal agent alleged Chowdhury gave him a $500 deposit for the job — a down payment for the full $4,000 he negotiated.
An unidentified person told federal authorities that Chowdhury hired someone to murder his wife in exchange for cash, prosecutors said. But the confidential source told authorities that Chowdhury said the hit man scammed him, took the money instead, and did not follow through with the plan.
The tipster claimed that Chowdhury requested that the job be executed immediately, and suggested that he would commit a robbery to get the money if necessary, prosecutors alleged.
After getting Chowdhury's contact information, an undercover agent "posing as a contract killer" began a conversation with him about his plan, officials said.
Chowdhury then met with the undercover agents multiple times in December 2022 and January 2023 to discuss the hit, prosecutors said. During these meetings, prosecutors said he gave them information about his wife and her boyfriend's whereabouts including their address, job, schedules, and photos.
"It is alleged that during these meetings and communications, Chowdhury explained that his wife wouldn't let him see his children and that he wanted the undercover agents to rob and beat his wife and her boyfriend so that he would not be a suspect," the US attorney's office said.
January 26, 2023: This story has been updated to clarify the accusations against Chowdhury are still allegations from prosecutors and have yet to be proved in a court of law.