The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the indictment of one Iranian and two Canadian nationals, one of them a member of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang, in a complex murder-for-hire scheme.
“From December 2020 through March 2021, Naji Sharifi Zindashti, 49, Damion Patrick John Ryan, 43, and Adam Richard Pearson, 29, conspired with each other in a plot to murder two residents of the state of Maryland,” said a Jan. 29 Justice Department release.