3 Arrested in Plot Targeting Somalis in Garden City, KS
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GARDEN CITY, KS (AP) -
Three members of a Kansas militia group were charged Friday with plotting to bomb an apartment building filled with Somali immigrants in the western Kansas meatpacking town of Garden City.
Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, 49, are members of a group calling itself the Kansas Security Force.The arrests were the culmination of an eight-month FBI investigation that took agents “deep into a hidden culture of hatred and violence,” Beall said. The suspects conspired to detonate a bomb at a Garden City apartment complex where Somalis were among roughly 120 residents, he said.
The men, who were arrested in Liberal on Friday morning, performed surveillance of the apartment building and prepared a manifesto, Beall said. If convicted, the men could be sentenced to up to life in federal prison without parole.
Eric Jackson, special agent in charge of the Kansas City, Missouri, FBI field office, said the group has militia and sovereign citizen ties.
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From one of the 3 men charged with #KansasPlot, says this country needs to “wake up… and decide if they want this country back”: pic.twitter.com/0rqQdHvzWv
— SPLC (@splcenter) October 14, 2016
#KansasPlot: Discussed surveillance of the Garden City complex. Called somali refugees “goddamn cockroaches” pic.twitter.com/9Gj7xeJzfP
— SPLC (@splcenter) October 14, 2016
#KansasPlot: Members of groups under investigation had sovereign citizen ties, espoused anti-government, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant beliefs pic.twitter.com/pU0Oc8uxOO
— SPLC (@splcenter) October 14, 2016