Transcripts Detail Plot to Bomb Somali Refugees in W. Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) and KWCH Prosecutors say three men accused of conspiring to bomb a Kansas mosque and an apartment complex housing Somali refugees also discussed killing the refugees’ white landlord because he rented to Muslims.
The allegations are included in new court filings ahead of a Wednesday hearing to determine if one of the men, Gavin Wright, should be freed pending his trial.
Wright and co-defendants Curtis Allen and Patrick Stein were arrested in October 2016. The three men face charges of conspiring to detonate truck bombs at the apartment complex where Somali immigrants live.
Wright’s attorney says Wright wasn’t aware that his co-defendants intended to actually carry out the attack and portrays him as a lonely man desperate to find friends after moving to Liberal in southwestern Kansas.
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