SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) -- The Utah man who was accused of attempting to hire a hitman using his stimulus check while behind bars in 2020 pleaded guilty Thursday.

Lorenzo Gutierrez, 32, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree felony criminal solicitation to commit murder. The trial was scheduled to go on for four days, but he changed his plea to guilty on the second day of the trial.

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill told ABC4.com that Gutierrez was going through a breakup with his girlfriend at the time, who he also had a child with, and he began to look for a hitman who could kill his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.

When Gutierrez began looking for a hitman, he was in jail, because he had been convicted of several other felonies previously, Gill said.

In April of 20

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