Members of militia group charged with plotting to bomb Kansas apartment complex and mosque

Three men were arrested on Friday in connection with a plot to bomb a Kansas apartment complex and mosque, federal officials said.

 

Three men were arrested on Friday in connection with a plot to bomb a Kansas apartment complex and mosque, federal officials said.

Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright, and Patrick Stein face a charge of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction to detonate bombs at an apartment complex in Garden City, Kansas, where Somali immigrants live and worship, a statement from the US Justice Department said.

The men planned to release a manifesto they hoped would “wake people up,” Beall said. The three men were part of a militia that referred to itself as the Crusaders, investigators said.