WICHITA — The family of one of three men accused of plotting to attack Somali immigrants in western Kansas says they are “extremely grateful” to law enforcement for intervening.
Patrick Eugene Stein’s family issued a statement Monday through their lawyer, Dan Monnat, saying they were shocked and devastated to learn of the alleged plot. They say they do “not support discrimination of any sort and have never advocated or condoned violence as a solution to differences.”
Prosecutors allege that Stein, Curtis Wayne Allen and Gavin Wayne Wright were part of an anti-Muslim, anti-government and anti-immigrant militia group called “the Crusaders” and that they were planning to detonate truck bombs around a small Garden City apartment complex where about 120 Somalis live.
Wright is a former Manhattan resident.
The trio are accused of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. They appeared in court earlier Monday and were appointed lawyers, who later declined to comment.
