KEY POINTS

  • A former megachurch pastor was arrested after allegedly hiring a hitman to kill a chuch leader and a judge
  • Jacob Malone bribed an inmate with $5,000 to kill Cavalry Fellowship pastor Harold Lee Wiggins and  Somerset County Common Pleas Judge Jacqueline Cody
  • Malone did the offer while serving a three-to-six year sentence after pleading guilty to sexual assault in 2017

A former youth pastor at a megachurch in Chester County, Pennsylvania finds himself in front of a camera as police take his mugshot for the second time for allegedly trying to hire a hitman to kill two people who put him behind bars.

37-year-old Jacob Malone was serving a three-to-six year sentence at a minimum security prison when he allegedly offered a fellow inmate $5,000 to kill Cavalry Fellowship pastor Harold Lee Wiggins.

Malone, who served the church as a youth pastor in 2014 and 2015, told the inmate that he “wanted to get revenge on the people involved in his case,” said NBC News, citing a statement from the Chester County District Attorney's office Friday.

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A Georgia high school band teacher was accused of having sex with a student multiple times. The representational photo shows a handcuffed man at the police headquarters in Lille, northern France, Nov. 29, 2018. Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images

However, Malone's revenge plot didn't stop there. The DA added that Malone offered the same convict “even more money” for the murder of Somerset County Common Pleas Judge Jacqueline Cody, according to CBS Philadelphia.

Cody presided over Malone's case when he pleaded guilty in 2017 for sexually assaulting and impregnating a 17-year-old girl.

Malone's plan backfired when the inmate told the DA's office about the offer last summer.

He was arrested Thursday and will face with murder-for-hire charges, added NBC News.

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