Murder charges were expected to be filed Monday against a man in case of a missing Staten Island father, a source familiar with the case tells NBC 4 New York.
Angelo Nesimi is expected to be charged in the death of his friend Michael Stewart, the source said Sunday.
Nesimi's attorney didn't immediately respond to multiple attempts from NBC New York to get comment.
Stewart, a 40-year-old father of two, was last seen on Dec. 20 and he sent a text message to his mother on Dec. 21, writing, "Please help me Mom," the New York Post reported.
Stewart was seen on surveillance video Dec. 20 horsing around with his Nesimi inside a barbershop in Port Richmond. Nesimi is a person of interest in Stewart's disappearance, the Staten Island Advance reported.
Nesimi, 33, was arrested Dec. 31 in connection to a violent attack on his girlfriend, Zammara Sanchez, police told the Post. The couple was previously questioned in the suspected killing of Stewart, and Sanchez told detectives that her boyfriend "killed somebody -- and he made me go with him to get rid of the body in New Jersey," the Post reported, citing sources.
Investigators believe it's possible that Stewart's body was dumped in New Jersey, and that sanitation workers may have picked it up with the trash and it was incinerated, the Advance reported, citing a source. Another source said surveillance video shows Nesimi and Sanchez tossing what could be a body into a trash bin in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, before driving away in a Chrysler sedan.
Sources also told the Post that Stewart had a relationship with the couple: "It was a relationship between the three of them that ended with [Stewart] stabbed up," a police source told the Post.
Nesimi told the Daily News in a jailhouse interview this month, "I didn't do it, 100 percent. They're trying to pin it on me."
Both Stewart and Nesimi have criminal records. Nesimi claimed he knew Stewart only for the past few years and that they kept up with each other because they went to the same barbershop, but said they weren't close.
Stewart's body hasn't been found.
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