Two current and one former Florida corrections employees, all members of the Ku Klux Klan, planned to murder a black inmate after his release from prison, the state attorney general said Thursday.
Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, and David Elliot Moran, 47, current DOC employees, and former prison employee 42-year-old Charles Thomas Newcomb, were busted by the FBI for conspiring to kill the black inmate as “retaliation” for a fight between the prisoner and Driver, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
The trio of would-be killers identify as members of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan – the KKK – according to Bondi.
Driver was hired in July 2010, according to research website Find The Data, while Moran was hired to his post in Jan. 1996. Driver and Moran work at the Department of Corrections Reception and Medical Center in Lake Butler, Fla., about 55 miles southwest of Jacksonville, authorities said. Newcomb worked at the same facility, officials said. Driver and Moran will be booked at the Union County Jail, while Newcomb was taken to the Alachua County Jail.
Newcomb is held on $750,000 bond, records show.
All three were arrested Thursday morning. The case will be tried in Columbia County, the prosecutor said.
That’s crazy that the corrections department even HIRES people who are known members of hate groups. Seems like that ought to be something they background check for
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