Enlisted Undercover Cop to Kill Man to Keep Him from Testifying
Against Her Son, Who Allegedly Shot Him
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx mother has been
sentenced to prison for hiring a hitman to kill a man to keep him from testifying against her son,
who is charged in the non-fatal shooting of the man two months earlier.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant, a Bronx mother whose son allegedly shot a
man, hired a hitman to finish the job. She paid $1,000 to the supposed hitman, who was actually
an undercover detective. The defendant will now go to prison for trying to end someone’s life
and for trying to subvert the criminal justice system.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Annette Spann, 45, of 1010 East 178 Street, was
sentenced today to two and one-third years to seven years in prison by Bronx Supreme Court
Justice Robert Neary, via video. The defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree Conspiracy on
May 26, 2020.
According to the investigation, on the night of November 14, 2019, Spann met with an
undercover detective who she believed was a hitman. Spann is seen on video counting money and
paying the detective $1,000 for the hit job. Spann provided specific information about the
intended victim’s whereabouts and associates. Spann was arrested on November 22, 2019. Her
son, Candido Lizarro, AKA Candido Lizarra, 26, was arrested on December 11, 2019 in Florida
for allegedly shooting the victim on September 2, 2019 and was extradited to the Bronx. The case
against him is pending.
District Attorney Clark thanked Vladimir Kocheulov, Chief of the Crime Strategies
Bureau, and Analysts of the Crime Strategies Bureau for their assistance in the case. District
Attorney Clark also thanked Detective Ravi Narayan of the NYPD Firearms Suppression
Division, Detective Victor Cardona of the NYPD Intelligence Bureau, Detective Randy Kyrk of
the NYPD Bronx Warrant Squad and Detective Andrew Nash of the 48th Precinct.
