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An investigation that included the FBI and Homeland Security leads to the break-up of a plot from K-K-K members to kill a black Florida inmate. As Matt Galka tells us, the three men arrested all were current or former employees of the State Department of Corrections.

Three men, two current Department of Corrections employees and one former DOC employee, allegedly planned to carry out a murder plot according to the Attorney General’s Office.  All three have ties to the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan, and the target was set to be an African-American inmate.

Thomas Driver and David Moran were working for the department in Lake Butler. Charles Newcomb was let go in January of 2013.

Senator Arthenia Joyner says it’s another mark against the department currently dealing with a crisis when it comes to inmate treatment.

“It’s unfortunate, it just seems like there’s a pattern, and that is the troubling thing, a pattern one way or the other,” said Sen. Joyner (D-Tampa).

The Department of Correction declined an on-camera interview, but released a statement condemning the actions.

The arrest warrant states the plot stems from a fight between the inmate and Driver. Driver claims the inmate had a disease and tried to pass it on to him.  Earlier this year, two of the suspects drove to the inmates house with syringes of insulin and a handgun and were prepared to carry out the plot.

The case is set to be prosecuted in Columbia County.

The arrest warrant states that an informant showed the three suspects a fake photo showing the inmate shot to death.  Using evidence from recorded conversations, the FBI then moved to arrest the men on Thursday.