Clockwise from top left: Andrew Mustapick’s booking photo; Mustapick in a surveillance image; money collected in the case (Indian River County Sheriff’s Office).
A Florida man, who is already facing charges related to the sexual abuse of a teenage girl—which reportedly included forcing her to “sign a contract” that contained a clause stating she would “serve as his sex slave twice a week”—now faces accusations of plotting to have her killed to prevent her from testifying, according to police authorities.
Andrew Mustapick, aged 70, from Vero Beach, stands charged with two counts of soliciting someone to tamper with a victim by allegedly planning a “murder-for-hire plot” aimed at having the alleged victim killed, as per court documents and statements from local police officials.
“This guy is an absolute animal,” Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers told ABC affiliate WPBF and other media outlets at a May 6 news conference.
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Mustapick, who signed a plea deal in the abuse case in January, was scheduled to be sentenced in June. “His plan was to withdraw the plea deal,” Flowers said. “If the victim is no longer here, he essentially gets sentenced to nothing.”
For the abuse case, cops say Mustapick met the girl, then 17, through a 19-year-old friend, according to the TC Palm. He allegedly agreed to buy the older teen a car in exchange for sex. The younger girl told investigators that after Mustapick bought the car, she was allegedly forced by the 19-year-old to have sex with him.
Mustapick made her “sign a contract” that outlined a schedule for her and how she would “be his sex slave twice a week on Mondays and Fridays for the next five years,” according to cops.
Investigators said Mustapick denied knowing the girl before he agreed to his plea deal. His alleged murder-for-hire plot was uncovered during a police sting, during which he agreed to pay $40,000 to have the victim not testify and an additional $50,000 to have her killed, according to the TC Palm. Flowers said Mustapick was arrested and charged on May 5. A relative of Mustapick’s allegedly tipped off police.
“He’s trying to hire someone to kill the victim in this case,” Flowers recalled the person saying. “He wants to pay someone to kill this victim,” the sheriff recounted.
Mustapick is facing a sentence for one count of unlawful sex activity with certain minors in the abuse case.
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