More details emerged in a murder-for-hire plot in Rostraver during a preliminary hearing yesterday.
The Trib reports that prosecutors have accused 57-year-old Keven Van Lam ordered and financed the hit on a man who he paid $800,000 to in 2019 to buy a staffing agency that provided about 500 temporary workers to a Charleroi-based meat packer.
Detective Rick Kranitz testified Lam believed 49-year-old Boyke Budiarachman was sabotaging his newly bought business. Prosecutors contend Lam met Budiarachman for dinner last Nov. 5 at the Samurai Restaurant in the Rostraver Square Shopping Plaza and notified a hit man when the target walked out to the parking lot following their meal. Budiarachman was shot twice, including a fatal shot in the top of his head.
The judge ruled that Lam will be tried on charges of First-Degree Murder.
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