New Jersey's former Bordentown City police chief convicted in murder plot
Bordentown's ex-police chief Phil Castagna convicted of plot to kill wife Thursday, October 21, 2010 Staff Report MOUNT HOLLY — Former Bordentown City police chief Phil Castagna was found guilty Thursday of conspiring with an ex-con buddy to have his estranged wife killed in a 2003 firebombing at her home. When Castagna learned the Burlington County jury’s verdict, “He turned around and looked at me; he was shocked,” said Castagna’s sister, Clare Lindsey of Bordentown City. “He said, ‘They found me guilty!’ He said, ‘I can’t believe it!’ “And I looked at him, and I said, ‘What?!’ He couldn’t believe it. There was no evidence!” Facing 10 to 20 years when he is sentenced Dec. 3, Castagna heard the judge revoke his $350,000 cash bail. The guilty man is chunkier now than he was after the attempted murder seven years ago, and sheriff’s officers needed two sets of handcuffs to loop his arms behind him and lead him from the courtroom away to the Burlington