Two young men from Texas had an elaborate plot to conquer an island near Haiti with a sailboat and a makeshift mercenary army, namely by slaughtering all of the men and using the women and children as sex slaves.
Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, had their bizarre plot foiled, and are now facing charges from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas.
Weisenburg and Thomas wanted to take over the island of Gonave, which is controlled by Haiti, with a “mercenary force,” per a report from CBS News.
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Gonave has a population of 100,000 and is the largest island off the coast of Hispaniola, the island that includes both Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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