THAT'S A BAD DATE: Feds say 25-year-old Beverly Hills man paid a hitman he found on the darknet $13,000 in bitcoin to murder a woman he met online and apparently met only once.
A 25-year-old Beverly Hills man faces 10 years in federal prison after admitting he solicited and paid a hitman on the dark web to kill a woman he barely dated.
Berkett met the unidentified woman online in 2020, and she flew to Los Angeles to meet him in late October 2020, according to an affidavit filed in support of the charges. The woman found Berkett's behavior to be"sexually aggressive" and tried several times to break off the relationship after the October trip, federal prosecutors said.
In his plea agreement, Berkett admitted to soliciting and paying for murder-for-hire services on a darknet website claiming to offer such services, soon after being contacted by the woman's family. Berkett gave details about the woman and directions to her, and sent $13,000 in bitcoin to the group, prosecutors said.
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