Frisco Man Who Wanted Business Back Arrested in Murder-for-hire Plot, Officials Say

A Frisco man suspected in a murder-for-hire plot against his former business partner was arrested Friday and is in federal custody, officials announced. Eskandar Molavi, 69, is charged with one count of solicitation of kidnapping and one count of attempted kidnapping, Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas said.He was ordered Tuesday to remain in custody pending his trial.Molavi reportedly approached a man whom he thought was a pilot for a Mexican drug trafficking organization. He asked the man about kidnapping his former business partner and forcing him to sign over a gas station Molavi had lost to the partner in civil court, according to the criminal complaint affidavit. Molavi reportedly told the man that if the partner did not sign the business over, he wanted him flown to Mexico and murdered. At another meeting March 6, Molavi reasserted his request. The man told Molavi that a man also known as "Iceman" would be the person to carry out the scheme. In reality, "Iceman" was actually an FBI agent, officials said. The FBI agent met with Molavi on March 13 in Dallas and Molavi explained the dispute and agreed to pay the agent $20,000 to kidnap his former partner and force him to sign over the business, officials said. Molavi reportedly gave the agent the partner's name, home and business addresses and information related to the location of the school that the partner's daughter attended. He also told the agent that if his former partner did not sign over the business, the agent should kill him, officials said. The agent told Molavi the price for a murder was $50,000. After the meeting, Molavi asked the person he thought was a cartel pilot if he would be able to get Molavi a gun and a silencer in the event that the agent could not get the former partner to sign over the business, officials said.   Continue reading...