Three Arrested in Bomb Plot Targeting Somalis in Kansas

Source: NBC News | October 14, 2016 | Pete Williams

Three Kansas men were arrested Friday and charged with plotting to attack an apartment building in Garden City, Kansas where Somali immigrants were living.

Prosecutors say the men — Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright, both 49, of Liberal, Kansas, and Patrick Eugene Stein, 47, of Wright, Kansas — who called themselves “The Crusaders,” were unaware that the FBI was on to them last February and kept them under close surveillance.

The men had ties to an anti-government hate group, officials said, and talked about carrying out the attack after the election.

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