Trial Begins in Brent Sikkema Murder-For-Hire Case

Opening statements and witness testimony were heard in a Manhattan court on Tuesday in the murder-for-hire trial following the 2024 killing of New York art dealer Brent Sikkeman.Sikkema was found brutally murdered in January 2024 in his Rio de Janeiro apartment. Alejandro Triana Prevez, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was arrested just days later, and claimed that the dealer’s ex-husband, Daniel Carrera Sikkema, had offered him $200,000 to carry out the crime. Carrera Sikkema was arrested tw