California Man Arrested In Connection With Idaho Contract Killings
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A fourth arrest has been made in connection to a double homicide in southwestern Idaho in what authorities say is a contract killing.
The Boise Police Department in a statement Wednesday said 34-year-old Anthony J. Robins Jr. of Fremont, California, was arrested Tuesday at his home.
Court records say Robins arranged the killing of two Boise men and faces two counts of aiding and abetting first-degree murder and one count of aiding and abetting attempted first degree murder.
John C. Douglas, 44, of Reading, Pennsylvania, and Samari Winn, 35, of Boise are each charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Police say Douglas shot Elliott Bailey, 28, and Travontae Calloway, 27, at an apartment in Boise on May 8. Calloway's girlfriend was wounded. Police say Winn led Douglas to the home where the killings took place.
Anton Philip Raider, 22, of Boise, last month pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting attempted murder. Raider had initially been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. The plea deal links Raider to the injury to Calloway's girlfriend, but drops the charges involving the deaths of the two men.
Twin Falls Prosecuting Attorney Grant Loebs is handling the prosecution because of a conflict of interest in the Ada County prosecutor's office. Loebs has not said whether Raider agreed to testify against others possibly involved in the shooting.
Prosecutors have not offered a motive, but Winn's defense attorney has said that the theft of 30 pounds of marijuana led to the shootings.
Calloway's girlfriend told authorities that she and Bailey were helping celebrate Calloway's 27th birthday when she answered the doorbell. She said Douglas stepped past Winn into the apartment and started shooting. Calloway's girlfriend was hit in the arm but survived.
Winn was arrested the day after the shootings, while Douglas was arrested on July 28 and extradited to Idaho.
Ada County authorities in Idaho say they will seek to have Robins extradited from California.
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