A federal grand jury in New Mexico has returned indictments on firearms and conspiracy charges against five people arrested after authorities allegedly found 11 hungry children and the body of another boy at a makeshift compound last month.
Local sheriff’s officers raided the compound in Amalia, Taos County in New Mexico on Aug. 3, and found a semi-automatic rifle, several guns, and plentiful ammunition.
The indictment alleges that the defendants, all of them Muslim, “engaged in firearms and tactical training as part of their common plan to prepare for violent attacks on government, military, educational, and financial institutions,” the Justice Department said in a Sept. 11 release.
The charges stem from a charge of illegal firearm possession on one of the adults, Jany Leveille, 35, an illegal alien from Haiti. The others are charged with one federal count each of conspiracy to provide a person unlawfully in the United States with firearms and ammunition.
The defendants kept their 11 children, who ranged in age from 1 to 15, at the compound in squalid conditions. Law enforcement found the children hungry and wearing rags. Another child, a handicapped 3-year-old boy, died at the site.
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Local sheriff’s officers raided the compound in Amalia, Taos County in New Mexico on Aug. 3, and found a semi-automatic rifle, several guns, and plentiful ammunition.
The indictment alleges that the defendants, all of them Muslim, “engaged in firearms and tactical training as part of their common plan to prepare for violent attacks on government, military, educational, and financial institutions,” the Justice Department said in a Sept. 11 release.
The charges stem from a charge of illegal firearm possession on one of the adults, Jany Leveille, 35, an illegal alien from Haiti. The others are charged with one federal count each of conspiracy to provide a person unlawfully in the United States with firearms and ammunition.
The defendants kept their 11 children, who ranged in age from 1 to 15, at the compound in squalid conditions. Law enforcement found the children hungry and wearing rags. Another child, a handicapped 3-year-old boy, died at the site.
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