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Officer who questioned Justin Bieber's stalker details plot to kidnap and castrate pop star at 18

Justin Bieber was the target of a grisly kidnapping and castration plot when he was only 18. Now, the New Mexico corrections officer who questioned Bieber's would-be captor, tells his story.

Right away, he started talking about his tattoo of Justin Bieber," Edgar Pinon, a Sergeant at the New Mexico Department of Corrections, recalled on "Stalking the Stars," the April 28 episode of Investigation Discovery docuseries Hollywood Demons. Having caught "Bieber fever," Martin wrote letters to the "Baby" singer, then only 18, and had felt rejected when they weren't answered, the prisoner explained in an interrogation. In a phone call Ruane made to Martin the day after he was released from custody following the arrest at the border, he referred to the targets of their scheme as "dogs" and confirmed they would be castrated using hand-held hedge clippers.

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