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Two former Ku Klux Klan members have been indicted for allegedly helping burn a mainly black church in South Carolina last year, the Justice Department said Friday. The department said a federal grand jury in Charleston, S.C., issued a 20-count indictment against Arthur Haley, 51, and Hubert Rowell, 50. The indictment followed guilty pleas Wednesday by two other former members of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Gary Cox and Timothy Welch, for setting fire to the Macedonia Baptist Church in Bloomville, S.C., and the Mt. Zion AME church in Greeleyville. According to the indictment, Haley and Rowell allegedly conspired with Cox and Welch to set fire to the Macedonia Baptist Church.
