LEBANON, Tenn. -- Wilson County authorities said on Wednesday that they broke up a murder-for-hire plot that involved a teenager.

Teen Faces Charges In Murder-For-Hire Plot

According to the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office, Watertown High School senior Joshua Hayden Stubblefield, 18, Lauren Ashley Morrow, 19, and Andrew Bruce Bland, 24, have been charged with conspiracy to commit felony murder.

The target was Morrow’s mother, Karen Colleen Stribel, of Lebanon, according to an arrest warrant.

The warrant states that Bland and Morrow approached Stubblefield and told him that they would give him $150,000 if he would kill Stribel.

Wilson County Sheriff’s Department Detective Jeff Johnson received confidential information from an unidentified source that Stubblefield was planning the slaying, according to the warrant.

According to a news release, police posed as sellers of a weapon that would be used in the slaying of Stribel to make an arrest of the person who was to carry out the slaying.

The warrant claims that after further investigation, Johnson arrested Stubblefield after Stubblefield admitted the plans to him. The warrant also states that Stubblefield was told that Morrow would gain $2 million if Stribel was slain.

Authorities said that after his arrest, Stubblefield agreed to call Bland and Morrow in a recorded conversation placed from the Wilson County Sheriff’s office. During the phone call, the plot was discussed, the warrant said.

On Tuesday, Stubblefield was fitted with a recording device and sent to meet with Bland and Morrow at their residence in Bethpage where the group later discussed their intent to slay Stribel, according to the sheriff’s office.

After the conversation, detectives from Wilson and Sumner counties took Bland and Morrow into custody and took them to the Wilson County Sheriff’s Department where detectives said they admitted to plotting Stribel’s death and offering to pay Stubblefield to perform the act.

“It is very clear to me that if our officers had not acted on the information given to them two days ago, the victim could very easily be deceased today. I truly credit our officers with saving the life of the victim in this case,” said Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe in a release. Stubblefield said he never planned to carry out the attack.

“I opened my mouth to the wrong people, stuff got out. I never, ever intended to do this,” Joshua Stubblefield said.

His mother and father said he just put himself in a bad situation.

“Josh is a good kid. You can depend on him, he is responsible. Ya’ll just need to leave my boy alone,” said Stubblefield’s mother, Renee Stubblefield.

“It still ain’t the same one (Joshua). He just let his mouth put him in a predicament,” said Joshua Stubblefield’s father, Kenny Stubblefield.

Police said the gun they sold to Stubblefield was not in working condition.