A government informant tipped off law enforcement Sunday that Euripides Caguana had called him two days earlier and told the informant that he wanted the two witnesses killed by Saturday. He wanted to ensure they could not testify next week during the trial of his son Travis Caguana, 19, according to a federal complaint charging him with murder-for-hire.
The younger Caguana is accused of killing Dante Smallwood, 18, in June 2011 on the Southwest Side.
Caguana, 59, of the 3700 block of West 81st Place, and the informant met Monday at a Northwest Side restaurant to discuss the details of the hit. At that meeting near Addison Street and Pulaski Road, Caguana revealed that he had followed the two witnesses “around for some time to track their movements” .
Caguana told the person he had followed the witnesses for “some time’’ and handed over pictures of the men and notes on their movements.
The complaint states that, on Tuesday evening, Caguana asked during a recorded cell phone call, “Why don’t you come by the house?” The person he initially approached by Caguana replied, "I got dude (the hit man) on standby because he’s ready. You got ‘em, right [the money for the gun]?
“Yeah, yeah, we’re gonna do it. . .We’re gonna do it,’’ Caguana responded.
During the next few days, the person and an undercover officer posing as a hit man engaged in a series of recorded conversations and meetings.
Monday, the person met Caguana at his home and Caguana took money out of the trunk of a champagne-colored Toyota sedan and gave him $500 for the gun, according to the complaint. They discussed how he would pay $5,000 for one victim and $2,000 for the other.
They drove around in the car and visited the witnesses' homes before agreeing to get together the next day, Wednesday, to meet the “hit man’’ at Chase Park, at Clark Street and Leland Avenue.
At the park that morning, as law enforcement officers hid and watched, Caguana talked with the person and the undercover officer posing as the hit man.
Caguana told them, “This guy’s gotta go first’’. He also gave them details about what time the witnesses went to work. When the person offered to have them killed that day, Caguana replied, “We can do them both at the same time’’ .
They agreed that $2,000 was to be a “down payment'' and that Caguana would pay the balance after the first man was killed, according to the complaints. Caguana was arrested as they left in separate cars.
Caguana, of the 3700 block of West 81st Place in the Ashburn neighborhood, remains in federal custody pending a detention hearing next Wednesday.
5 comments:
Needless to say this is one of the dumbest things i've ever read, but it doesnt suprise me one bit.Now him and his son both will have to suffer
This type of shit happens all the time in the hood. It surprises the average joe because most people refuse to believe that its part of the business with organized crime, even on a smaller level. You can pay a dope attack a couple hundred dollars to give your adversary or witnesses the pillow. They might get caught or killed because of poor planning but who gives a shit about a dope attack.
Each year blacks kill 7,000 other blacks , and thousands of every race. In just 10 years blacks killed millions and over 65,000 white people. 75,000 white people die in Africa each year. in 40 years blacks killed millions of every race. and over 200,000 white people in USA. Each year BLACKS, and ILLEGALS, kill more than Iraq War EACH YEAR. both of them..keep your guns..
Nigga stone sdk he ain't no fucking donut
JUST DOING WHAT ANY UPSTANDING BLACK FATHER WOULD DO :-)
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