GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A Germantown woman is in custody after police say she conspired with another woman to have her ex-boyfriend killed in a murder-for-hire plot. Adelaida Consuelo Zacarias Chacon, 53, and Reyna Gomez Lopez, 40, of Philadelphia, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
According to police, detectives were contacted by a case worker at the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Family Justice Center back on June 28. The case worker told detectives they had learned that Zacarias Chacon had attempted to hire someone to kill her ex-boyfriend, Marvin Perez Rivera.
Court documents show that during an investigation, detectives uncovered conversations between Zacarias Chacon and her former sister-in law, Gomez Lopez. Zacarias Chacon told Gomez Lopez that Rivera left her for another woman, so Gomez Lopez suggested that she hire hit men to murder him. Gomez Lopez said she knew men in Philadelphia who would do the job for $1,000. Detectives also discovered a bank transfer confirming the payment.
But after Zacarias Chacon gave Gomez Lopez the money, she demanded $2,000 more to complete the job, which led Zacarias Chacon to think that she was being scammed. The two got into an argument, which led Zacarias Chacon to block Gomez Lopez's phone number. Police conducted search warrants of the cell phones of both women. Court documents show that Gomez Lopez offered someone that $2,000 to "break a man's head" and that person declined to help her.
Both women were taken into custody by officers with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force. Zacarias Chacon has been charged with first-degree conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree solicitation to commit murder. She is currently being held at the Central Processing Unit, awaiting a bond hearing on Tuesday afternoon that was postponed from Monday. Gomez Lopez faces the charge of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder and is awaiting extradition to Montgomery County.