Police and sheriff's deputies yesterday searched the Grain Valley home of Charles J. Juba, the former Aryan Nations leader and erstwhile teen dance party host.
The last we heard from Juba, he was trying to open an under-21 club in Odessa. City leaders nixed the idea when they got wind of his involvement in the white-power movement, which Juba said he left behind. In 2005, the Pennsylvania native arrived in Kansas City, Kansas, and described his intention to take the Aryan Nations brand national after its successful test marketing in state and federal prison facilities.
One of the Southern Poverty Law Center's 40 to Watch, Juba was at one time a racist prodigy, becoming a grand dragon of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at age 21. He called his website Gas a Jew for Jesus.
In Odessa, Juba had presented himself as a reformed man. But divorce records suggested that old habits were hard to break. Last December, Courtney Cook-Juba, who had once sewn Nazi pillowcases for her husband, stated in court papers that she worried Juba would tote their children to Aryan Nations and National Socialist Movement rallies.
Juba was not at home when Grain Valley police and Jackson County sheriff's deputies searched his house. The warrant is sealed, according to reports. But you can guess that Juba will do a robe count when he's allowed back into his home.
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