By Chris OrletRecord Managing EditorAbout two dozen Warrenton households got a late night drive-by visit from an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan Tuesday, Oct. 29.According to Warrenton Police Chief Greg Houdyshell, some residents awakened to find plastic baggies tossed in their yards by unknown persons. The baggies contained a small rock and Klan literature.“They didn't target by race,” Houdyshell said. “They were very random, just showing up in people's yards over night.”One resident of McKinley Ave., was outraged enough to call police and file a police report alleging harassment.The bags contained a message attempting to recruit new members.“The message was that they want to be out there and they are trying to recruit new members,” Houdyshell said.Similar incidents have been reported in numerous Missouri cities, including Springfield and Lexington.Some times the messages have been offers to help set up neighborhood watch programs, along with a message to contact the group if there's trouble in the neighborhood.Other fliers attempt to recruit women to join the organization. These fliers say that the organization is not a hate group, but a traditionalist, white Christian group.Houdyshell there were maybe between 15 and 20 fliers tossed out on lawns.“There were no threats made in the fliers,” he said.Frank Acona, the imperial wizard of the the Park Hills-based Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said it was likely his organization responsible for the fliers.“I know we have members out there,” he said. Acona said any one can go to the group's website and print off fliers and distribute them.He said that after fliers are distributed in a community he usually receives a few calls from people who say they were surprised to find that the Klan still existed.Houdyshell said the fliers are protected speech and therefore not illegal. “The only crime they could be charged with is littering,” he said.Anyone who has a flier is asked to call the Record at 636-456-6397.KKK Recruitment Fliers land in Warrenton Yards