Police release audio of phone calls in alleged plot to murder Justin Bieber

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Details are coming to light about the alleged plot to murder Canadian teen pop star Justin Bieber.

Audio has been released of phone calls made last November from a prison near Las Cruces, New Mexico, detailing how Bieber was to be killed.

Police say the calls were between Dana Martin, the 45-year-old prisoner accused of masterminding the plot, and the men he allegedly hired to carry out the gruesome plan.

In the tapes, Martin tells a former jailhouse friend and the man’s nephew how to suffocate Bieber using a paisley scarf — apparently his signature move.

He says to “tie it really, really tight” and knot it both front and back.

The plan was derailed when the accused would-be assassins accidentally ended up at the Canadian border.

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