New charges filed for suspected jail calls, letters meant to line up stories in attempted murder of judge
Thomas Moss accused this week of making phone calls and sending coded mail hoping to get alleged co-conspirators’ stories straight and pin the attempted murder on one man.
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NEW CHARGES FILED FOR SUSPECTED JAIL CALLS, LETTERS MEANT TO LINE UP STORIES IN ATTEMPTED MURDER OF JUDGE
New charges filed this week accuse Thomas Moss, a Lafayette man central to an alleged plot that led to the attempted murder of Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Steve Meyer and two others in January, of trying to send letters to three others charged as suspected co-conspirators, hoping to get stories straight and blame shifted away from him.
In court documents filed Monday, prosecutors accused Moss of using a Tippecanoe County Jail phone several times in April and May, under the pretense of contacting his attorneys, to work with two women to arrange to get coded letters he’d written to Raylen Ferguson, Nevaeh Bell and Blake Smith – all three also charged with attempted murder – before they were scheduled to give depositions about the Jan. 18 shootings and alleged plot leading up to it.
“In the letters, Moss provided instructions to each co-defendant on how to proceed with the case and what statements were to be given by the co-defendants when called to be questioned,” prosecutors wrote in a probable cause affidavit filed with the charges.
In this week’s court documents, prosecutors contend that Moss and the women he reached by phone looked to put the blame for the attempted murder of Steve and Kim Meyer firmly on Ferguson. Ferguson, of Lexington, Kentucky, is accused of being in the same motorcycle gang with Moss and who, according to prosecutors, admitted to pulling trigger that day at the front door of the judge’s Lafayette home.
