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Restaurant owner hired man to stage burglaries and shooting attack, according to search warrant
DAYTON - Investigators believe indicted restaurant owner Eva Christian hired a man now in prison to stage two burglaries as well as a gunman’s attack in 2009, according to a search warrant unsealed this week.
Christian, 43, the owner of Boulevard Haus and former owner of Cena Brazilian Steakhouse, was indicted March 18 on two counts of insurance fraud and two counts of making false alarms, all felonies. One of the fraud counts alleges an excess of $100,000.
She appeared in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday for a motion to suppress hearing. Her attorneys argue that the search warrants executed at her Washington Twp. home were not legal. She has called the charges “absolutely absurd and false.”
The charges concern a burglary Christian reported at Christian’s home, 6855 Saint Laurent Circle, on Oct. 11, 2009 and another at Cena, 2854 Miamisburg-Centerville Road, on Dec. 24, 2009.
A second search warrant remains sealed. The warrant unsealed this week concerns a January 2010 search of Christian’s home.
According to the warrant affidavit filed by Montgomery County Sheriff’s Detective Brad Daugherty, a confidential informant told Miami Twp. Detective Todd Comer on Jan. 11, 2010 that Christian hired a Darryl E. Adams, Sr. to break into the restaurant and to fire shots at Christian on Dec. 4, 2009.
Comer testified Wednesday that it was a anonymous caller who apparently knew Adams but wouldn’t say how. Comer said detectives still do not know who made the call.
Adams, 49, his son Darryl, Jr., 19, and Diane Jones, 42, are all imprisoned for theft-related offenses involving a January 2010 burglary at an Englewood company. All three were called by prosecutors to testify before a grand jury in March in connection with the Christian case. That testimony remains secret.
But Daugherty’s affidavit states that Darryl Adams, Jr. told detectives that his father said Christian paid him $1,000 to burglarize her residence and steal televisions and computers. Those items were later returned to Christian, Adams told detectives.
Christian also wanted Adams, Sr., to break into Cena and “blow it up,” but he refused because there were other restaurants attached, the younger Adams said.
Jones told detectives that Christian, known to the three as “Jill,” had been “begging Adams to blow up her restaurant” and “left the restaurant unlocked for several nights trying to get Adams to damage it.” She said she did not know if Adams did damage the restaurant. But she said “Jill” gave Adams, Sr. money to rent a Linden Avenue storage unit to keep the stolen items until they were returned to her.
Both said they had no knowledge of a shooting incident Christian reported Dec. 4, 2009. Christian told deputies that, as she got out of her car, an unknown person started firing at her. Deputies found five bullet holes in the garage door, two bullets inside the garage and four spent casings in the driveway, according to the affidavit.
A civil lawsuit against Christian, filed by the Cincinnati Insurance Co., is still pending.
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