detective alex moreno didn't know what to make. >> at first when he's giving you this information you you don't know what to think. here's a guy claiming he's sleeping with a guy's wife and now she's trying to get somebody to kill him. >> pretty juicy story. >> exactly. >> reporter: he had the tipster rung down his story. his name was mohamed. a part-time actor who worked at a convenience store. he had been friends with benefits with a woman for years. they had met for the occasional casual sex then she asked him for help in finding a hit man to kill her husband. >> he says, you know what, yeah, i'm sleeping with this guy's wife, but at the same time i didn't want this guy to be killed and that was his concern. he couldn't sleep with that whole idea this guy was going to get killed. >> reporter: the detective wondered if he was being sold a cock and bull story since he didn't claim to know much about the woman she was sleeping with. >> all the information he had was her first name. he didn't know where she lived. he didn't though who her husband was. >> reporter: while they debated wh