The questions about this case are multiplying. Days after the initial arrests, authorities bulldozed the compound, likely destroying a great deal of important evidence. Then initial charges were dropped on a technicality: prosecutors had not met a required deadline. Were the prosecutors really that incompetent, or were they trying to make this case go away? And now the FBI, as clueless, corrupt, and compromised as it is, has stepped in. This is the same FBI that stalled repeatedly and wouldn’t go into the compound, until finally the Taos police couldn’t wait any longer and went in themselves. Is this FBI action in order to complete the disappearance of this case, or in order to take genuine action?
“FBI arrests five New Mexico compound suspects days after multiple charges were dropped,” by Matt Richardson, Fox News, August 31, 2018:
The FBI announced Friday that it had arrested all five New Mexico compound suspects, days after multiple charges were dropped. The suspects were now being charged with violating federal firearms and conspiracy laws.
The announcement comes after local prosecutors dropped charges in the death of a 3-year-old boy at the compound site. Taos County District Attorney Donald Gallegos said Friday his office would now seek grand jury indictments involving the death. Gallegos said seeking indictments would allow more time to gather evidence.
“The defendants, Jany Leveille, 35, a Haitian national illegally present in the United States, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40, Hujrah Wahhaj, 37, Subhanah Wahhaj, 35, and Lucas Morton, 40, are charged in a criminal complaint that was filed earlier today in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico,” the bureau said in a statement.
“The criminal complaint charges Jany Leveille with being an alien unlawfully in possession of firearms and ammunition in the District of New Mexico from Nov. 2017 through Aug. 2018,” the bureau said. “The criminal complaint charges the other four defendants with aiding and abetting Leveille in committing the offense, and with conspiring with Leveille to commit the offense.”
On Wednesday, three of the suspects were released from custody, just hours after a judge dismissed all of the charges against them.
District Judge Emilio Chavez on Wednesday dismissed charges against Lucas Morton, Subhannah Wahhaj and Hujrah Wahhaj, ruling that authorities violated the state’s “10-day rule.”
Child abuse charges against them were dropped because prosecutors missed the 10-day limit for an evidentiary hearing to establish probable cause.
During a separate hearing Wednesday, Judge Jeff McElroy dismissed the same charges against fellow defendants, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and Jany Leveille.
The five suspects were arrested by authorities after an Aug. 3 raid following a monthslong inquiry into the disappearance of Abdul-ghani Wahhaj, 3. The boy, who had severe medical issues, disappeared from Georgia in December. The occupants of the compound were “most likely heavily armed and considered extremist of the Muslim belief,” an official said at the time.
Taos County Sheriff’s deputies discovered 11 children at the compound, who were taken into the custody of state child welfare workers. On Aug. 6, a child’s remains were found on the property.
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was allegedly training children to commit school shootings, according to prosecutors, who later alleged that the juveniles were taught how to use firearms, as well as tactical techniques, in order to kill teachers, law enforcement and other institutions they found corrupt.
Health officials confirmed earlier this month that the discovered remains were positively identified as the 3-year-old’s.
The FBI said they arrested all five suspects without incident on Friday afternoon in Taos….
Perry Eisenhower says
What took them so long??
mortimer says
Politicians are clearly tampering illegally with the justice system. The whole jihad terrorist scene is fraught with international sponsors, meaning that FOREIGN COUNTRIES are creating terror camps in the US and the US knows all about it.
However, it is DEAD WRONG to hide the facts of international terrorism from the American public. They are not children, but voters and the voters have a right to know.
There is a conspiracy at the top to hide JIHAD TERRORISM from the American government and to hide the international sponsors such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Bezelel says
mortimer, good point. This is the one camp that was publicized. We know very well there are more. We know very well that the same caliber of fbi agents who sat back and allowed the Garland attack are still on the job.
Susan B says
“Attorney Donald Gallegos said Friday his office would now seek grand jury indictments involving the death Gallegos said seeking indictments would allow more time to gather evidence.”
Would that be the evidence the FBI destroyed when bulldozing the compound.
Rick Johnson says
It is a small point. You may be correct in your statement. Just to clarify, how do you know it was the FBI who destroyed the compound?
Giacomo Latta says
It would not havebeen the landowner or else he would, or could, have been charged with destruction of evidence if he removed yellow tape at the same time.
Phil Copson says
Will charges now also be brought against those who refused to rescue a helpless 3-year old despite knowing that he would die without medical care ? who ordered the bull-dozing of the compound ? who failed to bring charges within the deadline ? who released the suspects ? etc etc etc
Mac-101 says
Let us pray this is due to a power struggle in the FBI and the good guys won out. I doubt it, but I can PRAY it is so!
Kay says
Can we see these type of compounds by satellite? They should all be watched and/or investigated.
Bob Hill says
They are all over the country,Up state New York, Michigan for sure Dearborn has the largest concentration and is almost a no go zone here in the US.
Garfield says
Uh, the starbucks that they hang out in in the places they move to an masse are no go zones. Or do other people feel.welcome in a place full of slouching men drinking coffee and lounging all afternoon who glare at you If you walk BY?
The culture of islam, segregation of men and women to mention only one bizarre and crazy custom of theirs, is incompatible with free western society.
That isn’t “racist” it is an observable fact.
Rick Johnson says
You would need to have prior knowledge of each site. You wo uld also need satellites in geosynchronous orbit over each site in order to provide 24/7 coverage.
Even if you had such resources, it is not hard to disguise or hide information from satellite coverage. You must have human assets on the ground to confirm and acknowledge.
Norger says
One of the things that’s disturbing to me is that with all the evidence that this group was plotting terrorist attacks, the most the feds can charge this group with is that they provided an illegal alien with access to guns. We need stronger/different federal laws to deal with this kind of threat.
Paul J Wheeler says
It might be better to enforce applicable law instead of making even more laws we won’t enforce.
There probably are other laws that could be used – conspiracy, my all-round favorite, is a crowd-pleaser and very hard to avoid.
This “we need new / more laws” cry is old and tired. We’ve been passing laws for over 200 years to make all sorts of things illegal! Can’t some creative prosecutor find a law to fit the alleged crimes?
Beagle says
The US needs to get out of the decades-long supporting jihad (in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc.) business.
It’s causing ‘confusion’ at home.
Ragdoll says
So let me guess, the new weapons charges will carry a much lighter potential sentence than the original (dropped) child abuse charges??
What about terrorism charges?? Come on, law enforcement! Let’s get something right…
Buck Tucker says
Trumped up charges, this is pathetic, there is a dead kid and they can’t get them for abuse? I guess child abuse falls under religious liberty in this case?
yohanan says
More evidence on jihad activity there –
>”Teen from New Mexico compound says he was trained for jihad: FBI”
Sept 2, 2018. TAOS, N.M. (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-mexico-crime/teen-from-new-mexico-compound-says-he-was-trained-for-jihad-fbi-idUSKCN1LI003
J.W.K. says
Someone likely crossed someone else’s palm with some greenbacks, and filthy lucre did its work. Tardiness in school was a punishable offense; in jurisprudence it is the cause of travesties that are allowed to pass with barely a shrug of the shoulders. The offending lawyers ought to be put in prison for life! The judge should be given a sharia style flogging and solitary confinement. This case sets a horrible precedect that other money grubbing “Attorneys” will likely cite for having other cases with CLEAR CUT EVIDENCE tossed, as the evil is allowed to flourish. Justice has become a MYTH.
Rick Johnson says
The judge had no choice in this case. The judge followed state law.
It is tragic but the judge is not to blame.
You need to look at the DA’s office and ask why they missed the 10 day window.
Matthew Mckinney says
Justice is a myth ….Government has an agenda and it doesn’t benefit hard working American families but an evil plot to hand full controll to world elite. No cost is to much!!!!!
Condor 18 says
I’m cautiously optimistic about the feds taking over the case. Hopefully there will be an aggressive US Attorney and an equally strict federal judge in the case.
Susan B says
Condor 18, Dream on.
Lee Sargeant says
good, I was worrying that they wouldn’t arrest those three and take the children into protective custody (and reverse brainwashing and get them out of islam – I HOPE!!).
But they not only have violent jihad (terrorism) charges, the abuse of children (at the very least), and I hope other things like polygamy charges, etc filed against them. All three need to sit their butts in gitmo til they die. To just think that training children to ‘shoot em up’ at another school isn’t one of the worst scenarios that these 3 freaks were going to do is not worthy of sitting their lives in gitmo then I do not know what is. We either protect our children or just hand them over to crapslam, oh er I mean islam.
coolhandluke says
This is a miscarriage of justice, it is deplorable that these insipid swineasses wont do their job.It is the American people that are paying these useless idiots to do their jobs. Your point regarding the letters,guns,and testimonies of the children should be enough to put them in jail a verrryyy long time.Hell Koresh and his people at the compound in Waco got murdered by goverment for ALOT less. A former congresswoman said under Obummer that they were changing the way that our intelligece agencies were to deal with islamists,, meaning do nothing at all….. It seems that she was right.
Rick Johnson says
The judge had no choice. The law was clear, the DA failed to produce. My inside line had two things to say.
A. They were released in order to let them go and be followed to additional leads.
B. They were let go with the full cooperation of the FBI who rearrested them after the additional evidence was gathered.
They were not L et go to blow with the wind.