The U.S. Marshals arrested a Fort Lauderdale-based dentist on Thursday in Broward County.
Charles Adelson is facing charges in a 2014 murder in Tallahassee. A Leon County grand jury indicted him on Wednesday after new evidence in the case surfaced in an alleged murder-for-hire plot.
The victim was Adelson’s former brother-in-law Dan Markel, a Harvard-trained attorney who was a Florida State University law professor for nearly a decade. Markel had two sons with Adelson’s sister
The new incriminating evidence is centered on the audio of a conversation recorded at the Dulce Vida Mexican Restaurant in Miami Beach, according to Leon County authorities.
Adelson is facing charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and solicitation of murder.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Allison Cubillos contributed to this report.
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