2 women charged in Montgomery County murder-for-hire plot

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A Germantown woman is in custody after police say she conspired with another woman to have her ex-boyfriend killed in a murder-for-hire plot. Adelaida Consuelo Zacarias Chacon, 53, and Reyna Gomez Lopez, 40, of Philadelphia, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder. 

According to police, detectives were contacted by a case worker at the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Family Justice Center back on June 28. The case worker told detectives they had learned that Zacarias Chacon had attempted to hire someone to kill her ex-boyfriend. 

During an investigation, detectives uncovered conversations between Zacarias Chacon and her former sister-in law, Gomez Lopez, indicating that Zacarias Chacon had paid Gomez Lopez $1,000 to find a person willing to commit murder. Detectives also discovered a bank transfer confirming the payment. 

Both women were taken into custody by officers with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force. Zacarias Chacon has been charged with first-degree conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree solicitation to commit murder. She is currently being held at the Central Processing Unit, awaiting a bond hearing. Gomez Lopez faces the charge of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder and is awaiting extradition to Montgomery County.