Two North Texas men face federal charges after a grand jury indicted them for an alleged plot to invade an island off Haiti, murder the men living there, and enslave women and children.

Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, of Allen, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of Argyle, were both charged with conspiracy to murder, maim, or kidnap in a foreign country and production of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas.

According to court information, the alleged scheme occurred between Aug. 2024 and July 2025.

Prosecutors say Weisenburg and Thomas planned to form an unlawful “expeditionary force” to invade Gonave Island, part of the Republic of Haiti, to carry out their “rape fantasies.”

Gonave Island has an estimated population of more than 87

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