A Tale of Two Hernandezes. The Footballer and the Gunrunner.

Aaron Hernandez in court

In any other world you wouldn't have really put the two Hernandez men together. 
On the face of it Aaron Hernandez was living the dream: a beautiful family, a great career, a forty million dollar contract, a new house, and all of this before he is even close to reaching thirty! 
But according to prosecutors in the just getting under way trial, this lavish life was merely the facade for a man they say not only murdered, or orchestrated the murder of Odin Lloyd, but that he is also implicated in a double murder in Boston in 2012.
During the current trial, where Aaron Hernandez faces multiple firearms charges along with the charge of first degree murder, the Judge has ruled that the jury will not be allowed to hear about the other outstanding charges. Prosecutors in the Boston case have said that they believe Aaron Hernandez killed Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Teixeira Furtado, 28, over a "spilled drink in the club". He also faces attempted murder charges for the other surviving occupants of the vehicle he allegedly shot into.

Oscar Hernandez JR

So who is Oscar Hernandez? Although the men are not related, according to prosecutors, and his own guilty plea, he acted as a "gunrunner" for Aaron Hernandez.

In his opening remarks, on January 29th 2015; Mr Bomberg made mention of a single deposit of $15000 into a bank account for Oscar Hernandez from Aaron Hernandez. The implication being that this was for the purchase of guns.

On January 21 of this year, Oscar Hernandez pleaded guilty to shipping an FEG assault rifle and two handguns to the residence of Aaron Hernandez in Spring of 2013. He also pleaded guilty to lying to a grand jury, witness tampering, obstruction of justice and gun conspiracy.

Oscar Hernandez's attorney insists however that Oscar won't "rat" on Aaron, and is in no way is his client consenting to be a witness at the trial of Aaron Hernandez and that it wasn't a part of the plea deal Oscar Hernandez had made with prosecutors.
But whether that remains the case, we'll have to wait and see!