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The Byron White Federal Courthouse, home of the 10th Circuit. (Courthouse News photo / Amanda Pampuro) (CN) — The decades-long sentences of three Kansas men convicted of plotting to blow up a Mosque were affirmed by the 10 th Circuit on Monday. After a jury trial in which the government called 15 witnesses and submitted 500 exhibits and the defense called 10 witnesses and offered 40 exhibits, a federal judge in 2019 sentenced Curtis Allen, 53, and Gavin Wright, 55 — members of the so-called Kansas Security Force militia group — to 25 years each in federal prison for plotting to blow up ...

US Appeals Court Upholds Prison Sentences for Men Who Plotted To Bomb Kansas Somalis A U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions and prison sentences of three men who plotted to bomb a Kansas apartment complex that was home to Somali immigrants and a mosque, rejecting in a ruling on Monday that the FBI had entrapped them. Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright, and Patrick Eugene Stein were found guilty by a jury in the Kansas U.S. district court in 2018 of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and violating the civil rights of Muslims living in the Garden City housing complex.

December 29, 2020 GMT WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The trial for a Kansas gamer accused in a deadly “swatting” call in 2017 has been delayed by an additional year after the man failed to obtain his high school equivalency. The Wichita Eagle reports that the defense attorney for Shane Gaskill joined prosecutors last week in asking U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren to extend Gaskill’s 18-month pre-trial diversion for another 12 months so he can complete a GED program. A written motion from the attorneys said the extension “is in the best interests of the defendant and the United States.” ADV...

Trial in Kansas 'swatting' case delayed so suspect can pursue GED Joe Raedle/Getty Images and last updated 2020-12-29 12:49:33-05 WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The trial for a Kansas gamer accused in a deadly "swatting" call in 2017 has been delayed by an additional year after the man failed to obtain his high school equivalency. The Wichita Eagle reports that the defense attorney for Shane Gaskill joined prosecutors last week in asking U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren to extend Gaskill's 18-month pre-trial diversion for another 12 months so he can complete a GED program. A written motion from th...

The Byron White Federal Courthouse, home of the 10th Circuit. (Courthouse News photo / Amanda Pampuro) (CN) — Three men who plotted to blow up an apartment building inhabited by Muslim immigrants in Garden City, Kansas, asked a 10 th Circuit panel on Monday to toss their 25- to 30-year sentences. The Federal Bureau of Investigation tailed the so-called Kansas Security Force for eight months between 2015 and 2016. The militia group was founded to respond to potential catastrophic events from natural disasters to the breakdown of the U.S. government. According to court documents, many members...