An Alabama plumber was arrested this week and charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill his wife and six adult children.

Mohammad A.H. Mohammad, 63, was charged with use of interstate commerce in the commission of murder for hire in federal court, according to WBMA. The Hoover plumber met with a man he thought was a hitman and offered him $20,000 to kill his wife and $5,000 each for the six children.

A cooperating witness told investigators that Mohammad was looking for someone to “take care of” his family for money.

Mohammad, who owns American Plumbing Service LLC in Homewood, and his wife were in involved in lengthy divorce proceedings, and she and two of the children have protection from abuse orders against him since 2021. The orders for protection say Mohammad threatened “to lock us in the basement and kill us.”

According to AL.com, the orders of protection came after domestic violence charges against Mohammad were dismissed. His wife, now 55, told police that her husband told her he would “come after her.”

“Mohammad has hurt me and my kids and used weapons against us,’’ she wrote. “Mohammad said he wanted to shoot my daughter between the eyes.”

“He always threatens me and my children with violence,” she said. “He has put his hands on my kids and sent them to the emergency room. He has put a gun and knife against my kids heads and throats. He has shot guns at us.”

A year later, Mohammad was arrested for stalking for putting GPS tracking devices on vehicles belonging to his wife and children. In 2023, police and firefighters responded to a vehicle arson on a car associated with a friend of Mohammad’s wife, and the next day, a pickup truck belonging to one of his son’s was set on fire in the family driveway.

Nine months after that, suspicious fires burned another son’s SUV and three other vehicles.

In December 2023, charging documents say, someone called the wife on behalf of Mohammad asking for reconciliation. She refused, and 12 hours later, a daughter’s care was burned.

Mohammad was then arrested for violating a protective order and the bond on the stalking charge was revoked. But he was again released in February and ordered to wear an ankle monitor.

Finally, in August, the cooperating witness spoke with federal agents, telling them that Mohammad had told him of his family troubles and saying he felt his pride and dignity had been destroyed. He told the witness he was willing to “die for self dignity” and “die for pride.”

“Mohammad described the break down with his wife and children including his arrests and instances of arson involving his family members,’’ an agent wrote in the federal complaint, adding that Mohammad had showed the witness photographs of the burned vehicles.

“During the meeting, Mohammad explained …how his family had turned against him,’’ the agent wrote. “Mohammad claimed that his family had set him up to be arrested and removed from his family home.”

When he met with the undercover agent, Mohammad also showed him the photos of burned cars and provided pictures of the family members he wanted dead.

“You pick and choose who you gunna take out, and get paid,’’ Mohammad told him, the complaint says.

“Start with one. Take your time. Second. Third. Fourth. Five. I don’t give (expletive). Just, start with one. What’s going to be to charge, start with one?”

Mohammad gave the agent $550 as a down-payment for the murders.

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[Featured image: Mohammad A.H. Mohammad/Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office]