Texas Men Indicted For Planning To Recruit Homeless Army And Take Over Haitian Island

Two Texas men have been indicted for planning to recruit homeless people to help them conduct a coup in an island in Haiti, murder all men and turn women and children into sex slaves, according to a new report.

The men, aged 20 and 21, began taking steps to carry out the plan, including learning Haitian Creole. One of them, Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, also joined the North Texas Fire Academy last year to learn "command-and-control protocols." However, he failed it and was dismissed in February this year.

He then traveled to Thailand to learn how to sail, but didn't end up doing it because of the cost. The two intended to buy a boat to reach Gonave, which holds some 87,000 people. The other one, Tanner Thomas, joined the U.S. Air Force in January of this year to learn skills he believed would help with the plan.

The New York Times, noted that the men researched guns and ammo and planned to buy military style weapons. They believed that once they reached the island they would murder the men and use women and children to fulfill their sexual fantasies. They were charged with conspiracy to kill or kidnap persons in a foreign country, as well as sexual exploitation of children for producing a sexually explicit video of a child. If convicted, they could face life in prison.