PLANO, Texas — Homeless people from D.C., an international invasion, kidnapping and murder. Those were at the center of a plot prosecutors say was thought up by two Texas men, landing them in jail and facing life in prison.

Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, were indicted by a grand jury in Texas's Eastern District on Thursday. Court documents paint a picture of the elaborate plot to take over an island off of Haiti and fulfill violent rape fantasies.

Between August 2024 and July 2025, Weisenburg and Thomas allegedly planned to recruit and hire homeless people in the D.C. area to work as mercenaries to carry out a coup d'etat on Gonâve Island. Gonâve Island is controlled by Haiti and is the largest island off the country's coast, with a population estimated a

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