Joseph Anthony Hoppa and his Son Jason P. Hoppa are in the grips of the police after they were arrested and charged for trying to kill a family member over their family inheritance.
The Daily Mail got the details;
A Wisconsin father and son have been accused of plotting to kill a family member in a murder-for-hire scheme over an inheritance.
Joseph Anthony Hoppa, 62, and Jason P. Hoppa, 38, have each been charged with one count of solicitation of first degree intentional homicide for attempting to hire a hitman to ‘take out’ the intended target, Joseph’s other son.
The pair offered a ‘hitman’ a total of $40,000 to kill the family member over a property the target had inherited from his grandfather, including property and an undisclosed amount of money.
Joseph and Jason told the man he would get ‘$20,000 now and $20,000 when he took [the intended victim] out,’ authorities said.
Police were first contacted and called to a home in the Town of Berlin in late October by the ‘hitman’ who claimed the Hoppas had offered him money to take out the victim.
The man told officers he had spoken with the father and son back in July and was finally coming clean because he couldn’t live with the info any longer, according to WBAY-TV.
The hitman, whose name has not been released, told investigators Jason had ‘lots of firearms’ and he would file off the serial number for one of the guns so it could not be traced back to them.
Jason and Joseph’s family member had been the primary beneficiary of his grandfather’s estate upon his death, including his Berlin, Wisconsin, property and cash.
The family members believed the brother had conned and manipulated the grandfather into handing over the estate.
Joseph had first with the intended hitman while looking for a place to live and inquiring about a property with Joseph.
During a meeting between Joseph and the hitman, Hoppa told him he could move into the property if he would be willing to ‘do some favors down the road.’
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