Four people affiliated with San Fernando Valley street gangs were arrested and charged with participating in an alleged murder-for-hire plot against an Armenian organized crime boss who was allegedly involved in a power struggle to control territory, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday, Sept. 30. Instead of killing the organized crime boss, the plot ended with his wife being shot and injured in front of their two children, authorities say. After being arrested and charged with various crimes earlier this year, Amiryan and Artuni are in federal custody awaiting trial. At the beginning of 2025, Grimaldi, Ayala, De La Cruz and others reignited the effort to kill Amiryan and stalked him, authorities said. But, because “it was the wife not him,” she told De La Cruz she thought she would not get paid in the days following the shooting.