Plot to kill Indiana judge thickens: Prosecutors allege pending domestic violence case as motive

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Plot to kill Indiana choose thickens: Prosecutors allege pending home violence case as motive

By Shirley Henderson

January 26, 2026, 11:30 am CST

Police arrested 5 individuals linked to a bike membership with avenue gang affiliation in a conspiracy to kill an Indiana choose, centered round an upcoming home violence case, in accordance with prosecutors.

On Jan. 18, Tippencanoe County Superior Court docket Choose Steven Meyer and his spouse, Kimberly, have been injured throughout a capturing inside their house in Lafayette, Indiana. Choose Meyer was scheduled to listen to a home abuse case involving Thomas Gregory Moss, 43, who was charged within the 2024 beating of his ex-girlfriend and firing a gun inside her house, in accordance with protection by The Related Press. Court docket paperwork present Moss had connections to the Phantom MC Detroit-based motorbike membership and the Vice Lords avenue gang.

The scheme to shoot the choose concerned the acquisition of a shotgun and a faux meals supply to the Meyer house. Investigators discovered surveillance video of Moss affiliate Raylen Ferguson, 38, additionally arrested on Thursday, in accordance with the Lafayette Police Division. FBI, U.S. marshals and police from Indiana, Pennsylvania and Kentucky labored the case, and DNA from a discarded masks and clothes was matched to Ferguson.

Each Moss and Ferguson face tried homicide, conspiracy to commit homicide, battery and different prices.

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