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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n
(Montgomery County, PA) According to the Montgomery County District Attorney\u2019s Office, a man from Dresher, Pennsylvania was arrested in a murder-for-hire plot to kill his ex-girlfriend and two men she dated after they broke up.\u00a0That\u00a0same office confirms that yesterday was when forty-one-year-old Eric Berkowitz\u00a0was charged with\u00a0attempted murder,\u00a0criminal solicitation for murder,\u00a0and other offenses\u00a0after he planned to drive to New York on yesterday and meet an Upper Dublin Township resident, Steven Luker outside one of the intended targets\u2019 homes.\u00a0\u00a0Officials\u00a0stated\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0that Luker\u00a0contacted police and said that Berkowitz offered him $5,000 to murder his ex-girlfriend and two other people she dated in New York.\u00a0Berkowitz also allegedly gave\u00a0Luker\u00a0a Mac 11 firearm and a \u201cburner\u201d cellphone.\u00a0Berkowitz was arrested by police while he was in\u00a0an Uber\u00a0after leaving his home.\u00a0Berkowitz was taken to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility,\u00a0was denied bail, and his\u00a0preliminary hearing\u00a0will be on\u00a0February\u00a020th.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File Photo of Handcuffs) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Montgomery County, PA) According to the Montgomery County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-112065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}