- November 18, 2024
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A Palm Coast man is facing additional charges for ordering a gang-related murder while he was behind bars, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
Jebea Johnson, 22, was already in custody at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility for several violent crime-related charges — including attempted robbery with a firearm, burglary, aggravated battery causing harm/disability and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — after he was arrested for attacking a convenience store clerk in June. On Nov. 15, Johnson was rearrested and is now facing two additional felony charges: solicitation to commit first-degree murder — gang related and unlawful use of a two-way communications device.
Johnson was and will continue to be held in jail with no bond.
The FCSO's Homeland Security and Investigations Section became aware of several phone calls between Johnson and family members where Johnson "detailed gang activity and instructed a family member to relay a message through social media to place a hit on a victim who had been trying to leave the gang," known as the Kutt Throat Committee, according to a FCSO press release. Based on terms known to be used by criminal street gangs, detectives confirmed Johnson was ordering the individual be killed.
During the investigation, detectives learned Johnson tried to recruit the victim in the prison and criminal street gang while both were inmates at the jail.
Johnson was already facing six felony charges for attacking a gas station clerk in June. Surveillance footage and witness statements from the June incident showed Johnson confronted the store clerk with a gun and pistol whipped the victim five times, according to the arrest report. Johnson then forced the man to pre-charge a pump with $30 in gas, though Johnson did not use the gas. Johnson then left the gas station but was later found at his home on Buffalo Bill Drive in Palm Coast.
