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A Murder-for-Hire Plot: Calf. Pastor Hires Hitman to Off Daughter’s Boyfriend

True Crime Lounge
3 min readMar 23, 2024

In an unsettling turn of events, the city of Riverside, California, became the center of a shocking murder-for-hire plot involving a local pastor and a man named Juan Manuel Cebreros. This narrative unfolds the disturbing details that emerged from the police investigation.

A Murder-for-Hire Plot: Calf. Pastor Hires Hitman to Off Daughter’s Boyfriend. Samuel Pasillas and Juan Manuel Cebreros

The Beginning: A Violent Encounter on an October Night

On October 21, 2023, the tranquility of Riverside was shattered when a man, whose name has been withheld for privacy, found himself the target of a brutal shooting. As he was driving, a vehicle pulled alongside him, and a hail of bullets rained down upon his car. Despite being struck several times, the man miraculously managed to drive himself to the hospital for treatment. The car that he arrived in bore the scars of the violent encounter, with bullet holes punctuating the windshield and a side window.

The Investigation: A Pastor’s Dark Intentions

The Riverside Police Department immediately launched an investigation into the shooting. The evidence led to a disturbing discovery: the incident was not a random act of violence but a calculated murder-for-hire scheme. The orchestrator of the plot was none other than Samuel Pasillas, a pastor of Centro…

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