A teenage student, who probably has been viewing too many mafia-related movies, attempted to pay a classmate to “eliminate” a girl because she was supposedly interfering in his relationship with another girl, police said.

Thomas Moses Ramirez was put under arrest on Wednesday and faces charges of solicitation of capital murder. The 17-year-old Rayburn High School sophomore was prepared to offer $150 and a small amount of drugs to the hit man to kill the girl who was bothering him.
 
The girl targeted by the plot was a friend of Ramirez's 15-year-old ex-girlfriend, police said. Ramirez was convinced that the girl played a role in the break between him and his girlfriend.

"This is his first true love. He's got a broken heart. He's not thinking with his head," his father said according to ABC News.

Police investigators found out about the murder plot through a tip to a crime hot line, but they did not know if Ramirez was the one who made the call, said Pasadena Police Capt. A.H. "Bud" Corbett.

Police arranged for the teenager to meet at a Pasadena park with the student he had solicited, but a law enforcement agent posing as a hit man showed up instead. After making the agreement with Ramirez, the officer put him under arrest.

Ramirez was accompanied by a friend who was also arrested, but released soon afterwards.

The 17-year-old is currently under police custody and held at the Harris County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.