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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A woman arrested in Chicago Monday on murder solicitation charges says she intends to fight extradition to Lubbock, where her husband is being held. Vaso V. Mrnovic, 41, and his wife Ann, 69, are accused of offering $150,000 to kill Mrs. Mraovic’s son-in-law, Arthur Boldt, who owns a McDonald’s restaurant franchise in Lubbock. Mraovic was arraigned on a capital murder solicitation charge Monday before Justice of the Peace Charles Smith, who set his bond at $250,000. Smith recom mended a similar bond for Mrs. Mrnovic. Mohammed Y. Owaynat, a 35-year-old Jordanian who also lives in Chicago, was released on his own recognizance on a $25,000 material witness bond Monday. He is accused of being the hired gunman who reportedly was offered $150,000 to kill Boldt. But the gunman apparently received only $8,500 before Mraovic’s arrest officials from the criminal district attorney’s office and Texas Rangers said they arrested Mraovic shortly before 9 a.m. Saturday after watching him pay the Owayn at $3,500, allegedly to buy a gun and silence. Authorities said the gunman was paid $5,000 in Chicago and was to have collected the rest of the money when the contract was completed. Officials said they also seized $27,000 from Mrnovic when he was arrested. Although investigators refused official comment, the gunman reportedly contacted Boldt and told him of the contract. Boldt then contacted the FBI and the criminal district attorney Boldt and Mraovic have been involved in court battles over the 1965 will of Lillian Boldt, Boldt’s wife and Mrs. Mraovic’s daughter. In her will, Mrs. Boldt named her mother as the sole beneficiary and her husband as executor. The will was probated in July 1978, but civil lawsuits concerning the property’s value and how it should be distributed began in August of this year. Last week, a state district judge in Lubbock ordered a February hearing on one of the disputed matters. On the same day, authorities say, Mrnovic arrived in Lubbock. Mrs. Boldt, who died March 29, 1978, named her mother as sole beneficiary but stipulated that in the event her mother did not survive her daughter’s death by 90 days. Boldt would inherit half the estate In August, Boldt asked the probate court to determine whether specific property was included in his late wife’s estate. The property included Boldt’s townhouse in Lubbock, a condominium in Chicago, land in Sister Bay, Wisc., and stocks of Boldt, Inc., Standard Oil of Indiana, Union Carbide, ATT, Utah Shale and Minerals Corp. and Exxon. Boldt also asked the court to allow him to stop monthly $3,000 payments to Mrs. Mraovic until the estate is settled. Mraovic asked that Boldt be removed as executor, accusing him of ‘wasting and misusing”’ estate funds.
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Big Spring Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Tue, Dec 04, 1979
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