Two career criminals were charged in a Lincoln County grand jury indictment late last month with planning to "commit bodily harm with a deadly weapon" to state District Judge Karen Parsons and Assistant District Attorney RoxeAnne Esquibel, the Ruidoso News reported.

J. Tyrone Riordan, 24, and Dale Ray Dixon, 29, were accused of planning to acquire a small handgun, smuggle it into court and use it shoot Parsons and Esquibel, the News reported.

Riordan, originally of Roswell, was being held in the Lincoln County Detention Center, awaiting an October trial on charges including an open count of murder in the August 2006 death of 18-year-old Johnathan Lopez, the paper said.

He is now facing additional charges of possession of a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit aggravated battery and criminal damage to property, according to the News.

Dixon, of Ruidoso, who has a long history of crimes over the past 10 years including escape from jail, burglary and larceny, now faces a charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated battery, the paper reported.

Authorities said Riordan allegedly planned to use a contraband retrieval system in jail to get a small handgun and a pair of briefs into his cell, the News said.

Inmates are required to wear boxer shorts, because it is easier to hide objects in briefs, and Riordan's plan allegedly was to have Dixon use the briefs to hide the handgun for an upcoming court date, the News reported.

The plan was foiled when an informant reported the alleged conspiracy in January, according to the paper. 

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