JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man and his sister were sentenced to prison for their roles in a murder-for-hire plot targeting their stepfather, federal prosecutors said.

Joshua Bryan, 29, and his sister, Regan Bryan, 30, both of Clinton, Mississippi, sought to hire a hit-man to kill their stepfather in order to obtain life insurance proceeds, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi said in a news release Tuesday.

Regan Bryan, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder for hire, was sentenced to five years and five months in prison. Joshua Bryan was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder for hire and murder for hire following a trial that ended last December.