In the weeks leading up to the start of summer last year, Joshua Jalovick was looking to score some coke.
What his drug dealers didn’t know is that the Buffalo man was also working as an informant and wearing a wire.
Or did they know?
Just a few months into his work with police, Jalovick’s body, riddled with gun shots and left for dead, turned up in a backyard on Freund Street.
The two men accused of pulling the trigger that July day are now charged in a new grand jury indictment.
And they are facing the death penalty.
Prosecutors say Gregory Hay and Alphonso Payne, both of Buffalo, learned of Jalovick’s cooperation and plotted to kill him.
They also claim there are three eyewitnesses to the murder, each one of them now charged in the case.
“The victim was a drug dealer and a snitch for the feds who was trying to benefit himself,” defense lawyer Cheryl Meyers Buth said Thursday. “My client wasn’t the only person he was informing on. The government knew what the risks were for him on the street.”