Three Ku Klux Klan members who worked at a Florida prison have been charged with plotting to kill a black inmate after his release because they believed the man is infected with HIV and hepatitis and he bit one of them during a fight, officials said Thursday.
The three men — Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42 — were arrested Thursday and each faces one state count of conspiracy to commit murder, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's office said in a written statement.
In late 2014, authorities say Driver provided the Klan chapter, called a klavern, with a photograph of the inmate, who'd been let out on supervised release.
"Both Driver and Moran ... told the (confidential informant) that they wanted (the inmate) 'six feet under'," the FBI's affidavit said.
The informant recorded all three men making plans to murder the inmate — ranging from shooting him to injecting with a lethal dose of insulin, which Newcomb said "would be quieter." In the recordings, the men often refer to the man using a racial epithet.
Their first attempt to find and kill the inmate failed, and the informant recorded a conversation with Driver to confirm he still wanted him dead.
"Do you want this guy terminated?" the informant asked.
"Yes sir," Driver replied, according to the affidavit.
It's beautiful to see how low this cult has fallen.
