Affidavit: Man arrested after allegedly trying to hire a hitman to kill ex

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A San Antonio man was arrested after police said he allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill his ex-girlfriend.

Teodoro Torres III, 50, was charged with solicitation of capital murder and arrested Tuesday.

Torres had contacted Freddy Saiz, an individual he had met while incarcerated in the Bexar County Jail, on Dec. 4 asking to kill his ex because Torres claimed she wouldn't let him see his 5-year-old son, according to a court affidavit.

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Saiz told police that he had initially accepted the money and started to spend it before he got "cold feet" and decided against the murder, the affidavit said. Saiz instead contacted the ex-girlfriend and told her about the plan.

On Dec. 6, Saiz met with Rangers with the Texas Department of Public Safety to confess. During the interview, Rangers had Saiz call Torres, who repeated that he wanted the ex-girlfriend dead, according to the affidavit.

Rangers went undercover and contacted Torres, saying they would instead kill the ex-girlfriend. Torres told the undercover agents that he wanted the undercover agent "to rip her eyes out and he wanted (her) dead as well as her boyfriend," the affidavit stated. He also allegedly gave the Ranger a picture of her and her schedule of where she would be, the affidavit continued.

When Torres was detained by officers, he said that he had told Saiz he was mad because his ex-girlfriend wouldn't let him see his son and when he would write letters to his son, the ex's new boyfriend would return them and write expletives on the envelopes. Torres said Saiz allegedly told him that he was in a similar circumstance and would take care of the ex-girlfriend for him, the affidavit said.

Torres' bail is set at $300,000.

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