Three days after news broke about two North Texas men’s stranger-than-fiction plot to subjugate a Haitian island, two former federal prosecutors told NPR on Sunday that their clients plan to plead not guilty.

Tanner Thomas, 20, of Argyle and Gavin Weisenburg, 21, of Allen were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to murder, maim or kidnap in a foreign country and production of child sexual abuse images.

Both face up to life in prison for the conspiracy charges and 15-30 years in federal prison on the child sexual abuse image charges.

Dallas attorney John Helms, who’s representing Thomas, told the Denton Record-Chronicle that his client made his initial appearance in federal court Monday morning in Sherman and entered a plea of not guilty.

Thomas, who was booked T

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