Weapons charges dropped in 2018 raid on family compound in desert that turned up child’s remains

WSBtv ^ | 9/22/23 | staff

[CFW]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two firearms charges were dismissed Thursday amid preparations for a trial against an extended family arrested in a 2018 law enforcement raid on a ramshackle desert compound in northern New Mexico and the discovery of a young boy’s decomposed body.

The changes narrow the case to terrorism and kidnapping charges against five defendants in a trial scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection at U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.

Authorities had been searching for a sickly 3-year-old who had been reported missing by his mother in Clayton County when, in August 2018, they burst into a ramshackle encampment in the remote desert surrounded by berms of used tires with an adjacent firing range.

Sheriff’s deputies and state agents initially found 11 hungry children and a small arsenal of ammunition and guns. After days of searching, they recovered the decomposed remains of the 3-year-old in an underground tunnel.

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A grand jury indictment alleges Leveille, a Haitian national, and her partner instructed people at the compound to be prepared to engage in jihad and die as martyrs, and that another relative was invited to bring money and firearms.

[CFW]

Note that this is in NM, a state that has been in the news recently due to the Governor's attempts to just "pause" Second Amendment rights. As many note, the left continues to demand more and more gun laws to be used against the law abiding citizen at the same time they dismiss firearms charges against criminals.

[arthurus]

Moslems and their compound looks like something from a middle eastern slum.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The Zipcode where this compound was located has more square miles than people. You can bet the locals picked up on them pretty fast.

[DesertRhino]

That was a terrorist human trafficking base... and they dropped the weapons charges.