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And now Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

Friday, February 3rd, good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

A Camden County man pleaded guilty to paying tens of thousands of dollars as part of a plot to have a 14 year old murdered.

The US Attorney office for New Jersey says 31 year old John Muspa of Hadild entered the plea in federal court on Thursday.

Investigators said in 2015 he was exchanging pornographic videos and pictures with the victim who was 13 years old at the time.

According to court documents, the victim's parents were the ones who found the messages exchanged with Muspa and on the online chat room and they notified authorities.

In May of 2016 authorities say that Muspa repeatedly communicated with an administrator of a purported murder for higher website intending to have the teenager killed so the victim couldn't testify in court.

Was this one of those websites that was higher killer dot com type of thing where these idiots think that they can actually do that.

Right. Correct. It was not a real. Yeah.

Well, this guy psycho, first of all, it out and insanely stupid on top of it. Yeah. So rather than.

Yeah, he's thinking kill the witness.

Yes, kill this person. Wow. That's insane.

If you need a hitman.

Muspa.

I'm a shopman.

Yeah.

I know some of my competitors will do it for more money, but yeah, it's so crazy.

But these things consistently drawing people.

And even with all the stories about people getting caught up seriously. So he asked if a 14 year old was too young of a target and was told that would not be a problem.

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