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New Details Emerge In Alleged Ambush Of Teen

Ex-Boyfriend Said 18-Year-Old Was Set Up

POSTED: Saturday, March 29, 2008
UPDATED: 1:33 pm EDT March 29, 2008

Local 10 has obtained new details of a three-year-old death and possible ambush that left an 18-year-old man dead in Davie.

Richard Rojas was killed in July of 2005 at his ex-girlfriend's home. Police have received information from a man about what happened the night of the slaying.

The gunman who alleged killed Rojas said the teenager was trying to break in. Last month, five people were arrested in the case and charged with conspiracy and murder. Rojas' ex-girlfriend, her father and three others are in the Broward County Jail, and were arrested after a key witness recently came forward.

"I don't know if he died inside the house or outside, but I know they moved the body," Julio Arce told Davie police detectives two months ago.

Arce is the former boyfriend of Kristin Bilotti, who is in the Broward County Jail with her father, Michael Bilotti, and three others accused of murdering Rojas.

According to Arce, Rojas was lured to the home and murdered in what he described as a "mob style" set up. It all began, he said, when Bilotti told her father that Rojas, her ex-boyfriend, raped her. Arce said Michael Bilotti flipped.

"He goes, 'N,o he's dead.' So he picked up the phone and called a dozen guys. Four or five showed up, all with guns," Arce said in the statement.

The men all worked at Bilotti's strip club, Secrets, in Northwest Miami Dade, according to police. They were identified as John Pacchiana, Wayne Pallazola and Richard Corbin.

When Rojas called Kristin Bilotti's cell phone, Arce was told to answer it, and said he was ordered by the armed men to lure Rojas to the home.

"Egg him on, you know, tell him you want to fight, tell him this and that, we'll grab him," Arce said the men told him.

Rojas accepted the challenge and said he was on the way over to the house. That's when Arce said the discussion between the gunmen turned surreal.

"It sounded like this was a routine thing. He was like, 'This time I want to be the guy that gets to do it. It's my turn to be the shooter.' They were laughing, they were joking," said Arce.

He said Pacchiana and Corbin were waiting at the home when Rojas arrived. A struggle ensued and Rojas was shot twice, once in the neck and once in the face. Arce said later he overheard Corbin talking on the phone about how it all happened.

"They were talking about how they had to hold him down, and something went wrong, so when they shot the kid, it didn't look like self defense," Arce told detectives.

The Rojas family did not want comment on camera because they are concerned for their safety. The men have all hired their own attorneys, and are being held without bond, according to Local 1o.

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