Livermore molestation defendant accused of trying to hire hit man

Andrew Nisbet, a Livermore youth golf coach accused of child sexual abuse. Andrew Nisbet, a Livermore youth golf coach accused of child sexual abuse. Photo: Handout, Courtesy Livermore Police Depart Photo: Handout, Courtesy Livermore Police Depart Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Livermore molestation defendant accused of trying to hire hit man 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A well-known Livermore golf coach charged with 75 felony counts alleging that he molested children is now facing accusations that he tried from jail to hire a hit man to kill three alleged victims.

Andrew Michael Nisbet, 32, wrote letters from Santa Rita Jail in Dublin expressing his interest in having the victims "taken care of," Alameda County district attorney's Inspector Jeff McCort wrote in a court affidavit.

Those letters, which included information about the alleged victims, ended up in the hands of a confidential informant, who in turn brought them to the attention of a sheriff's deputy in February, authorities said.

The informant later received more letters from Nisbet "agreeing on a price for each victim and that Nisbet can get the (informant) money," McCort wrote.

In March, a district attorney's inspector, posing undercover as a hit man, visited Nisbet in jail during a secretly recorded meeting, authorities said.

The inspector described himself as a "mechanic and could fix a car for him and made a pistol-shooting motion with his hand," McCort wrote, noting that the term "mechanic" is often used to mean hit man or contract killer.

Nisbet said that there were two "cars," one in Pleasanton and another in Santa Barbara, where one alleged victim attends college, authorities said.

The inspector asked Nisbet for the name of the person in Santa Barbara, and Nisbet "mouthed" the name and said the "car" was 21 years old, McCort wrote.

Nisbet allegedly agreed to pay his visitor money up front "to prove he was serious." The undercover inspector told Nisbet that he'd make it look like "someone got robbed for a cell phone and it wouldn't come back to Nisbet," the affidavit said.

A search of Nisbet's jail cell uncovered driving directions to the home of the alleged victim in Pleasanton and "many other letters" from Nisbet to the informant discussing the murder-for-hire plot, according to McCort.

Nisbet was arrested in December and charged with 65 felonies, including lewd acts with a child, oral copulation with a child, sending harmful matter and arranging a sexual meeting with a minor. Authorities said Nisbet sexually assaulted several boys between the ages of 12 and 17 between 2009 and 2012.

Prosecutors later added 10 more felony charges, including allegations that he possessed child pornography.

He now faces three additional felony counts of solicitation of murder.

Nisbet, who had worked at Las Positas Golf Course in Livermore since 2006 and was director of instruction, also trained students in Michigan, North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama, authorities said.