Burlington, VT (AP) - Two more men have been arrested in connection with the 2018 kidnapping of a man later found shot to death in a snowbank in Barnet, Vermont.
Serhat Gumrukcu, 39, of Los Angeles, and Berk Eratay, 35, of Las Vegas, were arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire which resulted in the death of Gregory Davis, of Danville, the U.S. attorney’s office for Vermont said Wednesday.
Two other men, including another from Las Vegas, were charged last month.
Aron Lee Ethridge, 42, of Las Vegas, pleaded not guilty in April to a federal charge that he conspired in the kidnapping.
Jerry Banks, of Fort Garland, Colorado, was charged with kidnapping Davis. On January 7, 2018, Davis was found dead in a snowbank several miles from his home. The government has not charged Banks with Davis’s murder but has alleged that Banks was the one who murdered Davis.
If convicted, Gumrukcu and Eratay will face mandatory life in prison or the death penalty.