Post by watermouse on Dec 27, 2006 0:38:43 GMT
NEW YORK -- Foreseeing the future is Bonnie Davido's business. But she didn't see through an undercover detective posing as a hit man, police say.
Davido, who runs a palm-reading business from her Bronx apartment, was being held on $100,000 bail, charged with conspiracy and criminal solicitation. Police said she plotted to have her husband's mistress killed.
Her lawyer _ and her husband _ said she was innocent.
"I support her 100 percent," said her husband, Tony, who went to her arraignment Friday.
According to police, Davido struck a $3,000 deal to have the other woman slain, not knowing the killer was actually a detective.
After the detective told her he had killed the woman, Davido was arrested when she showed up to make the payment Thursday night, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
The sister of the woman who was allegedly targeted said Davido had threatened them for two years.
"We didn't take it seriously," said the sister, Selen Fuentes, 30. But then police told the sisters about the plot two weeks ago.
"Then (Davido) called me (Thursday) to see if these guys killed my sister. She left a message," Fuentes said. "...Life is crazy."
But Davido's lawyer said she was innocent, as well as distraught.
"At no time did she ask someone to kill (the other woman)," lawyer Anthony Lombardino said. "She's beside herself, crying."
A neon palm and a "Psychic Reader" sign hang in the window of Davido's second-floor apartment on Williamsbridge Road near East Tremont Avenue, and local residents and workers said she was in business as a palm reader.
"I would see her outside handing out business cards," said Brenda Ponce, who works in an office downstairs from Davido's apartment.
Former patron Michael McNeill, 16, said he had come away puzzled from Davido's psychic reading.
"She said the world was going to end in 2010," the high-school sophomore said. "What's that got to do with me?"
Davido's arrest came as a Long Island man was being held without bail in a similar case.
Santhosh Paul of North Bellmore, N.Y., was arraigned Wednesday on a conspiracy charge. Prosecutors accused Paul, 31, of offering $200,000 to have his wife killed _ and specifying that he needed it done before Christmas.
Paul's lawyer has asserted his innocence, and his wife has said she doesn't believe the accusations.
newsday.com 23 dec
source link:http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--palmreadersplot1223dec23,0,6320393.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
Davido, who runs a palm-reading business from her Bronx apartment, was being held on $100,000 bail, charged with conspiracy and criminal solicitation. Police said she plotted to have her husband's mistress killed.
Her lawyer _ and her husband _ said she was innocent.
"I support her 100 percent," said her husband, Tony, who went to her arraignment Friday.
According to police, Davido struck a $3,000 deal to have the other woman slain, not knowing the killer was actually a detective.
After the detective told her he had killed the woman, Davido was arrested when she showed up to make the payment Thursday night, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
The sister of the woman who was allegedly targeted said Davido had threatened them for two years.
"We didn't take it seriously," said the sister, Selen Fuentes, 30. But then police told the sisters about the plot two weeks ago.
"Then (Davido) called me (Thursday) to see if these guys killed my sister. She left a message," Fuentes said. "...Life is crazy."
But Davido's lawyer said she was innocent, as well as distraught.
"At no time did she ask someone to kill (the other woman)," lawyer Anthony Lombardino said. "She's beside herself, crying."
A neon palm and a "Psychic Reader" sign hang in the window of Davido's second-floor apartment on Williamsbridge Road near East Tremont Avenue, and local residents and workers said she was in business as a palm reader.
"I would see her outside handing out business cards," said Brenda Ponce, who works in an office downstairs from Davido's apartment.
Former patron Michael McNeill, 16, said he had come away puzzled from Davido's psychic reading.
"She said the world was going to end in 2010," the high-school sophomore said. "What's that got to do with me?"
Davido's arrest came as a Long Island man was being held without bail in a similar case.
Santhosh Paul of North Bellmore, N.Y., was arraigned Wednesday on a conspiracy charge. Prosecutors accused Paul, 31, of offering $200,000 to have his wife killed _ and specifying that he needed it done before Christmas.
Paul's lawyer has asserted his innocence, and his wife has said she doesn't believe the accusations.
newsday.com 23 dec
source link:http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--palmreadersplot1223dec23,0,6320393.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork