Klansman Facing Federal Prison
A former grand wizard of a Kentucky-based Ku Klux Klan organization is set for sentencing on federal drug and gun charges.
Ronald Wayne Edwards, who founded the Imperial Klans of America in Dawson Springs in 1996, will appear Thursday morning before U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley in federal court in Owensboro.
Edwards pleaded guilty in March to federal drug and gun charges. His longtime girlfriend, Christina A. Gillette, who admitted to drug charges, is also set for sentencing.
Prosecutors say Edwards trafficked in methamphetamine and painkillers on multiple occasions for a year starting in January 2009 and carried a gun during at least one drug transaction.
Edwards told The Associated Press in an interview that he expects to receive a four-year prison sentence.
