'I need gas money': Man wanted to 'smoke' the mother of his child's new boyfriend but needed a ride from his friends, authorities say

A Texas antheral is accused of seeking to termination the parent of his child's caller boyfriend and enlisting the assistance of his friends due to the fact that helium needed a thrust to face the man.

Hugo Carlin, 19, is charged with soliciting idiosyncratic to perpetrate murder, McLennan County jail records show. He was booked into the McLennan County Jail connected Wednesday and is being held connected $250,000 bail.

According to authorities, Carlin had a "desire to perpetrate murder," but helium had a problem: He needed a mode of reaching his intended target.

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"I request state wealth bro," the fishy said successful a substance to 22-year-old Elian Araujo, according to an apprehension affidavit reviewed by section CBS affiliate KWTX.

"I'm not playing," different connection read, on with the menace that the suspect was going to "smoke" the victim.

On Sept. 15, Araujo picked Carlin up successful his vehicle, on with 3 different people, constabulary say. One of them, 21-year-old Misael Jiminez, was besides successful the vehicle, according to instrumentality enforcement. As the conveyance moved done Waco, a constabulary serviceman pulled it implicit adjacent the intersection of Franklin Avenue and South 5th Street owed to an alleged postulation violation.

When the serviceman peered inside, helium saw 5 firearms betwixt 3 radical successful the backseat. One insignificant had 2 guns tucked into his waistband, the affidavit says. Carlin himself had a semiautomatic firearm with "an highly precocious capableness of precise deadly ammunition," according to the charging document.

Additional instrumentality enforcement officers arrived to assistance apprehension the suspects, with 1 of them reportedly telling investigators Carlin "had been talking astir going to face his child's mother's caller boyfriend."

Court records amusement that Araujo and Jiminez person some been charged with transgression conspiracy to perpetrate aggravated assault. They are besides being held connected $250,000 bail.

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Police alleged successful the affidavit that the substance thread betwixt Carlin and Araujo "supports the communicative fixed by parties astatine the clip of the postulation halt that Hugo Carlin was looking for a thrust oregon state money, and that [Araujo] past picked up Carlin and [the others] to assistance [Carlin] successful the committee of the transgression discourtesy of execution and/or aggravated assault."

One of the men successful the conveyance was not charged aft cooperating with instrumentality enforcement, the section TV presumption reported.