2024 trial date set for 2 men in Vermont murder-for-hire case

2024 trial date set for 2 men in Vermont murder-for-hire case

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A federal judge has set an October 2024 trial date for two men facing federal charges in a case that led to the 2018 killing of a Vermont man. Serhat Gumrukcu, of Los Angeles, and Berk Eratay, of Las Vegas, pleaded not guilty last year to a charge of wire fraud as part of a transcontinental murder-for-hire case. The two men were previously charged with arranging to have the third defendant, Jerry Banks, kidnap and kill Gre…

Murder-for-hire trial set for October 2024

BURLINGTON – The two remaining defendants in a murder for hire case five years ago in the Northeast Kingdom will go on trial in October 2024.

2024 trial date set for 2 men in Vermont murder-for-hire case

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Two men facing federal charges connected to the 2018 abduction and killing of a Vermont man are scheduled to go on trial in the fall of 2024, a judge decided Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford set an Oct. 7, 2024 start date for the trial of Serhat Gumrukcu, of Los Angeles, and Berk Eratay, of Las Vegas. They pleaded not guilty last year to a charge of wire fraud as part of an alleged international murder-…

2024 trial date set for 2 men in Vermont murder-for-hire case

A federal judge has set an October 2024 trial date for two men facing federal charges in a case that led to the 2018 killing of a Vermont man. Serhat

2024 trial date set for 2 men in Vermont murder-for-hire case

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Two men facing federal charges connected to the 2018 abduction and killing of a Vermont man are scheduled to go on trial in the fall of 2024, a judge decided Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford set an Oct. 7, 2024 start date for the trial of Serhat Gumrukcu, of Los Angeles, and Berk Eratay, of Las Vegas. They pleaded not guilty last year to a charge of wire fraud as part of an alleged international murder-…

2024 trial date set for 2 men in Vermont murder-for-hire case

FILE - A Vermont state trooper, center, speaks to a homeowner, Jan. 8, 2018, near an area on Peacham Road in Barnet, Vt., where the body of Gregory Davis was found. Jerry Banks, the Colorado man who prosecutors say abducted and killed a Vermont man as part of a murder for hire conspiracy, pleaded guilty Friday, June 9, 2023, in federal court to charges that could land him in prison for life. Banks was charged with murder for hire that led to the…