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Archive for November, 2010
Canadian Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Kidnapping and Murder-for-Hire Plot
On October 18, 2010, United States District Court Chief Justice Mark L. Wolf sentenced Nicholas Djokich to 20 years in a federal penitentiary for his role in a 2008 international kidnapping and murder-for-hire plot. As a result, Djokich will not be eligible for parole until 2026, when he will be 76 years old. Djokich was represented by the firm of Denner Pellegrino in Boston, Massachusetts.
Djokich, 60, is a Canadian national who was arrested in the United States in 2008 on charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. The target of his plot was Attorney Richard DeVries, a lawyer from the Bahamas. Djokich believed that DeVries had swindled him out of millions of dollars in a fraudulent investment scheme. Djokich therefore hatched a plan to send a hit man to the Bahamas to pressure DeVries into paying the money back. Djokich told the hit man that he would not mind if, after DeVries was forced to pay the money, the hit man “took DeVries fishing and he never came back.”
The “hit man” Djokich hired, however, was actually an undercover police officer from Boston, M.B.T.A. Detective Peter Pasciucco.
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