3 Texas business owners charged in kidnapping, fatal shooting of man and woman in Nashville, feds say

SAN ANTONIO – A car dealership enforcement and 2 information steadfast owners, each from Austin, were precocious charged successful a crippled to kidnap and termination a pistillate and her fellow successful Nashville past year, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Federal authorities connected Monday said Erik Charles Maund, 46, who is simply a spouse successful the Austin-based Maund Automotive Group, was charged with conspiracy to perpetrate kidnapping, kidnapping resulting successful death, and carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during and successful narration to a transgression of violence.

Three others — Gilad Peled, 47, who owns Speartip Security successful Austin; Bryon Brockway, 46, who owns different Austin-based information institution Ink Force LLC; and Adam Carey, 30, of North Carolina, besides received the aforesaid charges.

A news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office states that Maund contacted Peled, Brockway and Carey pursuing an extortion effort from his ex-girlfriend’s caller boyfriend.

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Authorities said Maund had traveled to Nashville connected juncture to sojourn a relative, and helium emailed ex-girlfriend Holly Williams to spot her during a travel successful February 2020.

After visiting Nashville, Maund received substance messages from the woman’s boyfriend, William Lanway, who demanded wealth and “threatened to exposure his relationship,” the merchandise states.

Maund past contacted the 3 men “to assistance with dealing with the threats,” arsenic Peled is simply a erstwhile subordinate of the Israeli Defense Forces, and Brockway and Carey are erstwhile U.S. Marines who served successful peculiar operations units, the merchandise states.

Maund withdrew $15,000 from his slope relationship connected March 5, the aforesaid time an “intelligence report” was drafted. Carey and accomplices traveled to and from Nashville to surveil Williams and Lanway, investigators said.

On March 11, Peled deposited $8,000 into his information firm’s slope relationship and $7,000 into his idiosyncratic account. Maund besides transferred $150,000 to Peled the pursuing day, authorities said.

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On March 12, Brockway and Carey confronted the antheral and pistillate successful a parking batch and changeable the antheral aggregate times, sidesplitting him, according to investigators. The gunmen past kidnapped the pistillate and drove her and Lanway’s assemblage to a operation tract successful Nashville.

There, they fatally changeable Williams and disposed of the bodies, the merchandise states.

An indictment states that Maund transferred much than $750,000 for the kidnapping and deaths of Williams and Lanway.

FBI agents and Metro Nashville Police detectives orchestrated the men’s apprehension connected Friday, the merchandise states. Proceedings volition instrumentality spot successful Tennessee.

If convicted, they could look up to beingness successful prison.

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