Waco Trib by KRISTIN HOPPA and TOMMY WITHERSPOON 5/23/2020
Two Waco lawyers were arrested Friday on charges that they plotted to kill an ex-husband, who had been arrested earlier this year on child molestation allegations.
Waco police arrested Seth Andrew Sutton, 45, and Chelsea Tijerina, 33, each on a first-degree felony charge of conspiracy to commit capital murder. Sutton paid an undercover Waco police officer to buy a gun to kill Tijerina’s former husband, Marcus Beaudin, a fellow Waco defense attorney, police allege in arrest affidavits.
According to the affidavits, Sutton solicited an undercover officer on May 14 to kill Beaudin, and the two exchanged ideas about the plot. Sutton told the officer he would give him $300 to buy a gun and said he would help the officer leave town after committing the murder, the affidavits state.
Beaudin, 37, was arrested in February on a felony charge of indecency with a child. Woodway police accused Beaudin of sexually touching a 10-year-old family member in December. He has not been indicted by a grand jury, and Beaudin’s attorney, Josh Tetens, has said Beaudin denies the claims.
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