Police said two men were arrested for murder and other charges when two men allegedly scam a Florida man from a ton of money, slaughter his body and buried his broken body in one of their backyards.
Joseph Srililo, 45, and 31-year-old Silviano Christman have been accused of scamming the 71-year-old “large amounts of money” victim with “large amounts of money” before police found him hugging his stomach on February 13th. According to the Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office.
The sheriff said the murder duo were together on January 3rd. It was the last day I saw the victim, Joseph Romano, alive. He was Reported missing Soon after that, a local deputy began an investigation into his loss disappearance on January 16th.
“The actions of these two men are mean and deeply intrusive,” Sheriff Chad Cronister said in a statement. “Through deceit and violence, they exploited and took the lives of another individual.”
A lawmaker searching for clues to Romano's disappearance quickly discovered an ongoing financial fraud scheme when he caught Sririllo trying to hook the victim's email from his Riverview home, officers said.
According to the sheriff's office, the victim's funds had been transferred to fraudulent accounts related to the fraudster, but the amount that was allegedly stolen was not specified.
Police say authorities secured a search warrant for Cirillo's Barrico Home when they learned that the confused pair had come together when Christman flew from New York to Tampa.
The New York Police Department's Regional Flow Task Force arrested Christman on February 20, a day before the former US S caught Cirillo of Pinellas County.
Both men were charged with pre-embedded first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit pre-embedded first-degree murder, robbery with a battery and misuse of personally identifiable information of the deceased.
Christman was also slapped for abuse of the body, police said.
NYC Prison records show that the California native will be held in the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital and will appear at Queens Crown Court on March 20th.
Cirillo, behind the bar at the Pinellas County Jail, faces additional money laundering, fraud and exploitation charges.
The investigation is ongoing, police said.
