NJ Radio: 2 More Arrests In Death Of WOND Personality

Beverly Augello and ex-husband Ferdinand Augello

A Florida Keys woman was charged last week in relation to the 2012 slaying of a New Jersey radio host, making her the third person to be arrested in the gang and drug-related murder plot, officials said.

April Kauffman

April Kauffman, a WOND Jersey Shore radio talk show personality, was shot and killed at her Linwood, N.J., home on May 10, 2012. For years, her death remained a mystery, but last week prosecutors in Atlantic City charged her husband, Dr. James Kauffman, with hiring a hitman to have her killed after she found out that he was running a drug ring out of his doctor's office involving the Pagans Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.

According to the NYDaily News, Ferdinand Augello, a member of the criminal Pagans gang, was also charged last week after prosecutors said he hired a hitman on Kauffman's behalf. On Tuesday, cops in Summerland Key, Fla., revealed that Augello's ex-wife, Beverly Augello, had been arrested on an "out of county warrant" and was awaiting extradition to New Jersey.

Herrin declined to give any more information about Augello, citing security concerns, but the Florida Keys News reported that she was arrested on suspicion that she picked up payment for her husband.

James Kauffman

In addition to murder charges, Dr. Kauffman, 69, was slammed with racketeering and drug dealing charges in relation to his relationship with the Pagans gang. Prosecutors claim he illegally provided gang members with Oxycontin pills with the purpose to sell them.

April Kauffman apparently asked her husband for a divorce after she found out about his pill-mill operation.

The prospect of a divorce got Kauffman worried about "losing his financial empire," Atlantic County prosecutor Damon Tyner said at a press conference last Tuesday.  "This provided motivation for James Kauffman to have his wife killed," the prosecutor added.

Francis Mulholland, the person who was paid to kill April Kauffman, died in 2013 after an accidental overdose, according to Tyner.