New Mexico police believe they have unearthed a plot to kill and castrate Justin Bieber.



An affidavit for an arrest from New Mexico State Police described a grisly plan that was to be carried out in late November in New York City. Bieber played Madison Square Gardens on Nov. 28 and 29.



The plan was hatched behind bars after inmate Dana Martin was transferred from a Florida prison to the Southern New Mexico Corrections Facility in April 2012, the affidavit said.



Martin allegedly recruited Mark Aaron Staake at the jail after the fellow inmate saw a tattoo of Bieber on Martin’s leg.



The plan was to kill and castrate four people in two states, with Bieber as the main target.



The details were revealed to police on Nov. 20, when Martin asked to speak to police, telling them Staake and his nephew, Tanner Ruane, were on their way to Vermont to commit two murders.



Both men have been arrested. Staake was picked up by police in Vermont, while Ruane was arrested in New York state.



He described the method: strangulation with a paisley patterned neck tie, followed by castration with “Durasharp” brand garden clippers. The bounty on each testicle was set at $2,500.



“Martin stated that a paisley tie needed to be used because that was what he (Mr. Martin) had used previously,” read the affidavit.



Martin is serving consecutive life sentences for murders committed in Vermont in 2000. In that case, police told The Associated Press the strangulation murder of a 15-year-old girl was a “case of jealousy.”



Throughout the police interview, Martin revealed that there would be two more targets, including the main one, identified as J.B. in the affidavit, who “has a measure of fame.”



Lt. Robert McDonald of the New Mexico State Police told the Toronto Star that the main target was Bieber.



Investigators from New Mexico State Police have yet to make an official statement.



In an email to the Star, Melissa Victor, vice president of media and artist relations at Island Def Jam Music Group, said: “We take every precaution to protect and insure the safety of Justin and his fans.”



The police affidavit describes Martin as “a very good manipulator,” who, “as part of his ruse,” convinced Staake that he had access to large sums of money and a multimillion-dollar historical home and property, where Staake and Ruane could hide out.



Martin also told Staake that he had connections to Chinese gangs in New York, who had “sanctioned” the murders, according to the affidavit.



Martin told police that Staake had been released from probation on Oct. 22, and that he had been in contact with Staake since then, and that Staake was to be in New York City in late November.



The first two murders were to be carried out in Vermont, where the affidavit said Staake and Ruane would be “well-positioned” to travel to New York City to complete the final two murders, which included Bieber.



McDonald said that New Mexico State Police are working to get Staake and Ruane back.



“Paperwork is in the process to get them extradited back to New Mexico,” said McDonald.



McDonald declined to speculate on why Martin decided to reveal the details to police, but a pair of phone conversations on Nov. 19 may provide some answers.



The affidavit said that Staake and Ruane “missed the final exit that would prevent them from travelling into Canada” when trying to cross the border at Highgate Springs crossing in Vermont in a 1983 BMW.



When the pair spoke with a U.S. border agent, Staake was arrested on an outstanding warrant in New Mexico.



On that same day, Ruane and Martin spoke on the phone, recorded by the prison.



“Mr. Ruane did not want to ‘move it forward’ without Mr. Staake,” read the affidavit, referring to the murders of the first two would-be victims, located in Vermont. Bieber is identified as victim No. 3.



Ruane made his way to New York state, speaking with Martin again on the phone from a truck stop in Rotterdam, N.Y.



The focus was now on Victims 3 and 4, including Bieber.



In Ruane’s recorded phone conversation detailed in the affidavit, he told Martin that Staake was going “handle the whole putting down of the ‘dogs’ and I (Mr. Ruane) was going to go ‘Snip, Snip.’”



Martin went to police the next day and Ruane was arrested by New York State Police, who were on the lookout for the BMW he was in when Staake was arrested.



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