A Clarke County grand jury has found that Sheriff Ira Edwards adequately responded to concerns that members of a black supremacist cult had infiltrated the county jail as they tried to attract jailers and inmates into the sect.

Four former Clarke County deputies accused of undermining jail security through their ties to a black supremacist cult were supposed to argue for their jobs this week, but a hearings officer postponed the appeals to give the ex-deputies more time to prepare.

They were two of five employees who were fired or allowed to resign after an investigation suggested their ties to the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors threatened jail security.

The firings come after a lengthy investigation into allegations that deputies belonging to a black supremacist religious sect broke policy by recruiting jail inmates into the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors and engaging in other prohibited activities.

Paper says sheriff owes community an explanation regarding police officer ties to jailed cult leader Dwight York.

The Clarke County Sheriff’s Office has finished a seven-month investigation into whether deputies’ connection to a black supremacist religious sect broke jail policy.

The investigation into links between deputies and jailed cult leader Dwight Malachi York of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors is continuing.

Clarke County Sheriff Ira Edwards has appointed a new jail commander, six months after he abruptly fired the former commander amid allegations deputies at the jail were recruiting prisoners into a controversial religious sect.

A Clarke County sheriff's deputy distributed black supremacist cult literature even as a Clarke County grand jury and the sheriff's office investigated alleged cult activity at the county jail, according to a defense attorney who represents a prisoner at the jail.

An image of Malachi York, the leader of the Nuwaubian movement who is serving a federal sentence for child molestation, has been gracing the side of a Macon public bus.

A grand jury has called for an independent agency to investigate the Clarke County Sheriff's Office because of "inappropriate" activities at the jail involving deputies belonging to a black supremacist religious sect whose leader is serving a 135-year federal prison sentence.

ATHENS, Ga. - Although the leader of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors religious sect is serving a 135-year sentence in a Colorado prison, a Clarke County grand jury is investigating the sect's influence on its jail and sheriff's department.

Monday, June 19, 2006 ATHENS, Ga. - In March, Clarke County's chief jailer Brett Hart got a letter from a federal prison.

If you've met Ira Edwards even once, you know he loves being Clarke County sheriff.

An image of Nuwaubian leader Malachi York, appearing to be standing in front of the nation's Capitol, looms on a billboard on the U.S. 441 bypass in Eatonton.

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