New Jersey law enforcement officials have accused Georgios Spyropoulos, the 45-year-old manager of Tick Tock diner in Clifton, with trying to hire a hit man to kill his uncle, Alexandros Sgourdos, the 57-year-old co-owner, and get rid of the body.
Authorities said Spyropoulos’s motive was that he felt he did not get a fair share of the diner’s profits. But the man he approached to kill his uncle was actually an undercover trooper.
Spyropoulos was being held on $1 million bail on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and unlawful possession of a weapon. The total payment for the killing and disposal of the body was agreed to be $20,000.
Spyropoulos allegedly ordered the undercover officer to kill Sgourdos’s wife, his aunt, as well, if she tried to stop his kidnapping, torture and murder.
Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa told a news conference that Spyropoulos was mainly after his uncle’s safe combination and told the “hit man” to torture Sgourdos until he reveals it.
“The nephew provided the officer with a $3,000 down payment, a photo of his uncle, a map of his home and his daily schedule, including how he parked his car, authorities said. He also allegedly provided an unregistered handgun,” Chiesa continued.
Police searched Spyropoulos’s house and car and said they found handguns, six cell-phones and some thousand dollars in cash.
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