Alleged Florida-Georgia KKK leader gets 7 years in prison

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Federal prosecutors say the leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter in Florida and Georgia was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a gun.

The acting U.S. Attorney for the northern district of Florida, Christopher Canova, said Tuesday that federal investigators found 38-year-old Jamie Vincent Ward of Bronson with a pistol and ammunition.

Ward was previously convicted in Georgia of theft, first-degree arson and possession of methamphetamine.

Canova says Ward was the grand dragon of the Florida-Georgia chapter of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

He also says Ward was aware of, but not involved in, a plot by fellow KKK members to murder a former Florida prison inmate.

The court took that information into consideration during Ward's sentencing.

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