A San Francisco Bay Area golf coach has been accused of hiring a hit man to kill three of his molested victims, prosecutors said.
Andrew Michael Nisbet, 32, who was set to receive an award from the PGA's Northern California Section 2013 Junior Golf Leader Award for his work with young golfers, was arrested last year a day before the ceremony.
Three students, between the ages of 12 and 17, were molested by Nisbet between 2007 and 2012, the Contra Costa Times reported.
He often showed the boys pornography, including child pornography, while he performed sex acts on them, authorities said.
Nisbet has been charged with solicitation of murder and a dozen molestation allegations by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, Seattle Pi reported.
Letters exchanged between the Livermore golf coach and a confidential informant indicates that he discussed various prices for the murder of the victims, prosecutors said Tuesday,
An undercover agent, posing as a hit man, had a meeting with Nisbet later on. The two discussed killing two of the victims.
"The agent, while making a shooting motion with his hand, allegedly told Nisbet he was a mechanic and could fix a car," Seattle Pi reported, "Nisbet mouthed at least one of the victims' names to the agent and disclosed the cities the two victims could be found in, according to Jeff McCort, an inspector with the district attorney's office."
The agent told Nisbet that the killings would be made to look like a robbery, McCort said.
"It appears from Nisbet's letters to and from the (confidential informant) as well as his conversation with (the undercover inspector), he is serious about having the victims killed in exchange for money," McCort wrote in a document seeking a warrantless arrest.
Additional letters which discussed the planned killings were seized after a subsequent search was made on Nisbet's jail cell, according to McCort.
Timothy Rien, Nisbet's attorney, did not immediately return calls on Wednesday, Seattle Pi reported.
