(KCEN) -- A murder-for-hire plot against a Texas judge has been foiled and the suspects are now in jail.
A Bexar County judge is safe after a murder-for-hire plot against him was foiled and all of the suspects involved in the plot to kill the judge are now behind bars.
The judge of the 144th district court, Angus McGintym is relaxing this spring break after being a target for murder.
A defendant in his court already charged with murder, who McGinty ordered held without bond because he tried to escape, paid a fellow inmate $2,000 to take the judge off the case, permanently.
McGinty said, "He was upset he was remanded without bond and from what I've been told, he asked someone to kill me, so that he wouldn't have to deal with me."
A jail informant overhead the plot and his lawyer informed police.
The judge learned about the threat on February 6, less than a week after an assistant district attorney in Kaufman County was killed.
