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3 KKK members make first appearance in prison murder plot

Florida correctional officers are accused of plotting to kill black inmate

By Ashley Mitchem & Marques White
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PALATKA, Fla. — Two current and one former prison employee who all belonged to the Ku Klux Klan planned to kill a black inmate as he was released in retaliation for a fight. One of those KKK members made his first appearance in front of a judge Saturday.

The three men -- Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and 42-year-old Charles Thomas Newcomb -- each were arrested Thursday on one state count of conspiracy to commit murder, according to a statement from Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office.

Charles Newcomb was transferred from the Alachua County Jail to the Columbia County Jail.

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