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Gov. Phil Murphy is pushing yet another gun control package his third, even if several of the bills
are left over from previous gun legislation pushes.
Those bills stricter ammunition tracking and photo ID requirements for purchases, four-year renewal of gun purchase IDs and lock box home storage rules have something in common besides firearms: They passed the Assembly in 2019 but not the Senate.
Man Indicted For Allegedly Trying to Hire Dark Web Hitman To Kill 14-Year-Old Child
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He paid 40 bitcoin, or approximately $20,000 at that time, for the attempted hit
Musbach pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in 2017
A Camden County, New Jersey man who was arrested in 2016 on child pornography charges has been indicted after he allegedly tried to hire a hitman from the dark web to kill a 14-year-old child.
According to a statement released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday, 31-year-old John Michael Musbach of Haddonfield was indicted on one count of murder-for-hire.
In 2016, Musbach allegedly attempted to solicit the services of a murder-for-hire website on the dark net to kill a 14-year-old, the DOJ said citing court documents.
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A New Jersey man who was convicted on child porn charges is accused of paying $20,000 in bitcoin to hire a hitman to murder his 14-year-old victim.
John Michael Musbach, 31, of Haddonfield, was indicted Wednesday and will be scheduled for an arraignment at a later date.
Musbach is charged with use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
A New Jersey man who was convicted on child porn charges is accused of paying $20,000 in bitcoin to hire a hitman to murder his 14-year-old victim.
N.J. man paid $20K in bitcoin to have hitman kill child porn victim, feds say
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A Camden County man, who admitted to exchanging sexually explicit images with a child, is accused of paying $20,000 in bitcoin to have his 14-year-old victim murdered, prosecutors said Wednesday.
John Michael Musbach, 31, of Haddonfield, was indicted on a federal murder-for-hire charge, New Jersey Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. The alleged plot stemmed from a child pornography-related case that began with local charges in Atlantic County.
Musbach pleaded guilty in 2017 to endangering the welfare of a child by sexual contact after an investigation revealed he used an online chat program to request and receive sexually explicit videos and photographs of the minor in 2015, according to prosecutors. He also sent the minor explicit images of himself, authorities said.
CAMDEN - A Haddonfield man has been indicted for allegedly paying $20,000 to have a 14-year-old boy murdered, according to the U.S. Attorney s Office for New Jersey.
John Michael Musbach, 31, wanted to kill the victim of an earlier child-pornography crime for which he d been convicted, the federal prosecutor s office alleged Wednesday.
It claimed Musbach paid for the hit in bitcoin, but the killer was actually someone operating a scam.
The scheme allegedly had its origins in a crime committed in the summer of 2015, when Musbach exchanged sexually explicit photographs during online exchanges with a 13-year-old, the U.S. Attorney s Office said in a statement.