- MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida
teen charged with hiring an undercover policeman to shoot and kill his
mother instructed the purported hitman not to damage the family television
during the attack, police said on Thursday.
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- Police in the southwestern Florida city of Fort Myers
arrested the boy, 17-year-old Carlos Chereza, on Tuesday on a charge of
soliciting to commit first-degree murder.
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- Tipped by an informant that Chereza had offered to pay
to have his mother killed, an undercover detective posed as someone willing
to do the job, Fort Myers police said.
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- Chereza offered the detective $2,000 that he expected
to inherit from his mother's bank account, and gave him the keys to the
family apartment, a map of the apartment and a picture of his mother, the
police report said. He asked that the shooting be made to look like a burglary,
it said.
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- "Carlos stated that he didn't want anything to happen
to the television," the detective wrote in the arrest report.
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- Police arrested the teen immediately after the meeting
with the detective, and the mother was unharmed. Police spokeswoman Kara
Winton said the motive was related to domestic problems within the family,
but declined to elaborate.
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