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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Montgomery County, PA) According to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, a man from Dresher, Pennsylvania was arrested in a murder-for-hire plot to kill his ex-girlfriend and two men she dated after they broke up. That same office confirms that yesterday was when forty-one-year-old Eric Berkowitz was charged with attempted murder, criminal solicitation for murder, and other offenses after he planned to drive to New York on yesterday and meet an Upper Dublin Township resident, Steven Luker outside one of the intended targets’ homes.  Officials stated on Tuesday that Luker contacted police and said that Berkowitz offered him $5,000 to murder his ex-girlfriend and two other people she dated in New York. Berkowitz also allegedly gave Luker a Mac 11 firearm and a “burner” cellphone. Berkowitz was arrested by police while he was in an Uber after leaving his home. Berkowitz was taken to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, was denied bail, and his preliminary hearing will be on February 20th.