Used to be a spurned woman, but now we getting spurned sweetman looking for revenge!

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A West Virginia judge was arrested today and charged with trying to frame his romantic rival.

An indictment against long-time circuit judge Michael Thornsbury was unsealed today accusing him of trying to frame his ex-mistress’ husband and then trying to trick a grand jury into filing criminal charges against the man.

In early 2008, Thornsbury began a romantic relationship with his secretary, repeatedly pleading with her to leave her husband so they could have a “deeper romantic involvement,” according to federal prosecutors. When his secretary, identified only as “K.W.” in court documents, broke off the relationship months later, Thornsbury allegedly told an unidentified associate to plant illegal drugs under the husband’s truck.

Thornsbury then tipped off police to the drugs, according to the indictment, but the unidentified associate backed out of the plan at the last minute and never planted the drugs, according to the indictment.

Still determined to be with “K.W.,” Thornsbury allegedly persuaded a West Virginia state trooper to file a criminal complaint against the husband, identified in court papers as “R.W.,” accusing him of stealing material from the coal plant where he worked. “R.W.” was subsequently arrested for grand larceny in December 2008, and a grand jury was impaneled a month later.

Thornsbury planned to use the grand jury to charge “R.W.” criminally, according to the indictment, but the grand jury declined to indict.

Thornsbury, 57, has served as Mingo County’s sole circuit judge since 1997, according to the Justice Department.