A plan to assassinate Canadian singer Justin Bieber, a true “idol” of North American adolescents, was thwarted by U.S. police, announced the television station KRQE-TV, quoted by billboard.com.
Two men in Albuquerque town (New Mexico) – Mark Staake, 41 years old and his nephew Tanner Ruane, 23 – were planning to track and assassinate the young artist, while he was in New York, where he held two sold-out concerts, on November 27 and 28 at Madison Square Garden.
According to police, Staake befriended a third man, Dana Martin, while both were incarcerated in the prison of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Martin, who in 2000 was sentenced to life imprisonment after he raped and murdered a 15-year-old teenage girl in Vermont, recruited Staake to kill certain people after Staake will be released from prison.
The pair wanted to kill first two men, witnesses to Martin’s killing then kill Bieber and his bodyguard.
Martin ordered the “killing and castration of Bieber and his bodyguard,” says TV station KRQE-TV in Albuquerque. It seems that Martin was obsessed with the Canadian pop star and had a Bieber tattoo on one leg. Upset because he couldn’t get in touch with the megastar, Martin decided to plot Bieber’s death.
Informed by Martin, the police recorded several telephone conversations between Staake and Ruane, which occurred after Staake was arrested in Vermont.
In those conversations, Ruane complained that he was disappointed that he could not carry out the killings. He was later arrested by police in New York, which found on him firearms and other weapons.
Justin Bieber, who grew up in the town of Stratford in the Canadian province of Ontario, but now lives in the United States, is one of the biggest surprises of the 2010 American Music Awards Gala, where he won four trophies. His debut album, titled “My World 2.0” has sold almost two million copies in the United States.
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