The suspects reportedly planned to turn women and children in Gonave into sex slaves<\/p>\n
Two US men have been indicted for allegedly plotting an armed operation to take control of a Caribbean island, kill its male population, and enslave the women and children, US prosecutors have announced.<\/p>\n
According to the US Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, both from the Dallas area, \u201chave conspired to recruit and lead an unlawful expeditionary force\u201d to Ile de la Gonave, a tropical island with around 100,000 residents that is part of the Republic of Haiti.<\/p>\n
The plan, reportedly discussed between August 2024 and July 2025, aimed to stage a coup d\u2019etat \u201cfor the purpose of carrying out their rape fantasies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWeisenburg and Thomas intended to murder all of the men on the island so that they could then turn all of the women and children into their sex slaves,\u201d prosecutors said on Thursday, adding that both were charged with \u201cconspiracy to murder, maim, or kidnap in a foreign country and production of child pornography.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Investigators claim the pair had planned to buy a sailboat and firearms and also sought to recruit homeless people in the Washington, DC area to form an armed group.<\/p>\n
The suspects reportedly undertook \u201cnumerous overt acts,\u201d including studying the local language, preparing operational plans, and exploring training programs in order to \u201cacquire skills relevant to the invasion plan.\u201d Officials said Thomas enlisted in the US Air Force to receive military training.<\/p>\n
Lawyer David Finn, who represents Weisenburg, described the indictment as \u201csimply an allegation\u201d and urged the public to “reserve judgment and don\u2019t buy into the hype.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“If your initial response to the government\u2019s press release was, \u2018That sounds crazy, impossible, and absurd,\u2019 you might be on to something important,”\u00a0he said, as quoted by Fox.<\/p>\n
The conspiracy charge to murder in a foreign country carries a potential life sentence, while the child pornography offense is punishable by 15 to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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