Cops: Man would kill for breasts

A murder-for-hire plot disrupted Thursday night in Fountain was hatched, in part, so a man could finance his girlfriend's breast augmentation, police said.

Nikita Weis, 18, offered to pay two men a total of $7,000 to break into his home, kill his mother and dispose of her body, said Fountain Deputy Police Chief Mike Barnett.

Weis planned to sell her car and drain her bank accounts, using some of the money to buy breast implants for his girlfriend, 21-year-old Sophia Alsept, Barnett said.

The plan unraveled during a botched home invasion about 11 p.m. Thursday.

Weis' mother, Hyun Weis, 42, was cooking dinner for her son when a man dressed in black barged into her home in the 7100 block of Yampa River Heights and assaulted her with a miniature baseball bat, Barnett said.

"I'd describe it as a souvenir baseball bat, but certainly capable of causing serious bodily injury or death," he said.

The woman used the "panic button" on her car keys to set off her alarm, spooking the intruder. She ran next door and alerted a neighbor, who phoned police.

At the time of the assault, Nikita Weis was at home and his girlfriend was waiting outside, Barnett said.

Hyun Weis, who was struck in the head, was being kept Friday for observation at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, but she was expected to be OK, police said.

Weis, Alsept and two men were booked into El Paso County jail on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, police said. The other suspects were identified as Juan Antonio Velez Gonzalez, 18, who is accused of wielding the bat, and Brandon Soroka, 19, who waited outside during the attack.

Detectives were told Weis' body was to be driven to the desert in New Mexico or Arizona or buried in a remote location off Garden of the Gods Road, police said.

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