Alleged Rikers Plotter Arraigned in the Bronx
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The man charged with soliciting a hit man to behead the police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, and blow up One Police Plaza was arraigned in the Bronx yesterday, officials said. David Brown Jr., 47, of Brooklyn, was charged with criminal solicitation in the second degree. Brown, a veteran convict, was remanded to Rikers Island where he was already serving a sentence for breaking an order of protection by visiting his former wife, officials said.
After the fatal shooting of Sean Bell, Brown began seeking a hit man to carry out the attack, police said. In an affidavit filed in Bronx court yesterday, police said Brown had boasted that he was getting together a down payment for a hit man, who was actually an undercover police officer wearing a recording device, and planned to eventually pay the entire $65,000 to carry out the beheading and bombing.
