Two North Texas men are facing charges after allegedly plotting to invade an island off Haiti, kill all the men and turn the women and children into their sex slaves, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Texas.

U.S. Attorney Jay R. Comb announced on Thursday that Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, of Allen, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of Argyle, have been charged with conspiracy to murder, maim, or kidnap in a foreign country and production of child pornography. The two-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas.

Between August 2024 and July 2025, Weisenburg and Thomas allegedly schemed to recruit and lead an illegal "mercenary force" to the Island of Gonave, part of the Republic of Haiti, "for the purpose of carrying ou

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