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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 an apartment complex and mosque in Garden City, Kansas. Accomplice Patrick Stein, 51, received a 30-year sentence.
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 connected over survival training, defense-tactics and fears of radical Islam.