DALLAS — Everyone remembers the cocaine-filled hotel room and mink coat . But Netflix's Cowboys documentary revisited another sordid -- and somewhat terrifying -- element of Michael Irvin's 1996 drug trial: The time a Dallas police officer tried to have him killed.

Yes, that's a real thing that happened.

In the middle of Irvin's trial on cocaine charges, authorities arrested Dallas police officer Johnnie Hernandez, the common-law husband of Rochelle Smith, one of the women who was called to testify in Irvin's trial.

Hernandez, authorities said, had paid an undercover federal agent several thousand dollars as a down payment to kill Irvin, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's report.

At the time, it was reported that Hernandez was upset at Irvin for his involvement with Smith.

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