A Manteca man is headed to prison for his role in a murder-for-hire plot.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Jagninder Singh Boparai, 49, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel Calabretta on Thursday to nine years in prison.

The big picture: Boparai conspired to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. • Court documents show that Boparai conspired with Ramesh Kumar Birla, of Dublin, and Shaminderjit Singh Sandhu, of Tracy, to murder a man who they had a dispute with.

Zoom in: Boparai met with a person he believed to be a hitman at a Manteca Starbucks in February 2023. • While Boparai and the other defendants thought they were meeting with a hitman, the hitman was actually a confidential informant working for the FBI. • Boparai told the in

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