Suspected White Supremacist Indicted in Plot to Kill Jackson

A man who authorities say once claimed to be a member of a white supremacist group was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.

Londell Williams, 30, of Washington, Mo., was charged in a four-count indictment with threatening to kill and inflict bodily harm on Jackson, with possession of an unregistered AR-15 rifle that had been altered into an automatic weapon, with threatening to injure an informant and with intimidating the informant.

His wife, Tammy Williams, 27, was not charged with threatening Jackson but was named in the other three counts.

Arraignment Scheduled

Arraignment for the couple was set for Monday in federal court in St. Louis.

Since being charged Tuesday, the Williamses have been held without bail at the St. Clair County jail in Belleville, Ill., authorities said.

The charges are based in part on tape-recorded conversations in which Londell Williams is alleged to have claimed the white supremacist group the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord was plotting to kill Jackson because he was “getting too close to being President of the United States.”

However, officials said Londell Williams passed a lie detector test Tuesday in which he denied membership in the CSA or The Order, another white supremacist group.

Denies Membership

“I’m not a CSA or an Order member,” Williams said Wednesday in a telephone interview with KSDK-TV in St. Louis. “I did not conspire to kill Mr. Jackson.”

Authorities said they were looking for links between the couple and the white supremacist groups.

“We are seeking out every shred of evidence and talking to every person we can who might know something,” said Rich Adams, a spokesman for the Secret Service.

Londell Williams is on probation in Christian County, Mo., from convictions for possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms, unlawful use of a weapon and probation violation, court records showed. Tammy Williams is on probation from convictions for petty theft, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Informs Sheriff

An informant who was a neighbor of the couple told the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department on May 9 that the couple were conspiring to kill Jackson, the federal complaint said.

The penalty for threatening Jackson is a prison term of no more than three years and a fine of no more than $250,000. The other counts each carry up to a 10-year term and up to a $250,000 fine.