US Appeals Court Upholds Prison Sentences for Men Who Plotted To Bomb Kansas Somalis

Gavin Wright, 49, is shown in this booking photo in Wichita, Kansas, provided on Oct. 15, 2016. Courtesy of Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters
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A U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions and prison sentences of three men who plotted to bomb a Kansas apartment complex that was home to Somali immigrants and a mosque, rejecting in a ruling on Monday that the FBI had entrapped them.

Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright, and Patrick Eugene Stein were found guilty by a jury in the Kansas U.S. district court in 2018 of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and violating the civil rights of Muslims living in the Garden City housing complex.