Feds Indict Two White Men in Plot to Enslave Women, Children on Haitian Island
Federal prosecutors say that two men from North Texas conspired to invade the island and kill all the men.
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Federal authorities indicted two North Texas men for a plot to take over a Haitian Island to carry out their “rape fantasies.”
A former aide to a Republican congressman was charged with staging a politically motivated attack.
An Ohio police officer was found not guilty of murder in the death of a pregnant Black woman who was accused of shoplifting.
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Two white men indicted in plot to take over a Haitian island to kill all the men and enslave women and children
What must it be like to have the confidence of white men? Imagine having the confidence and the caucasity to believe that you can do anything.
To wit: On Friday, federal prosecutors indicted two aspiring Jeffrey Epsteins for allegedly plotting to take over a Haitian island, kill all the men and turn the women and children into sex slaves.
And it gets crazier.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas alleges that Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, spent nearly a year planning this coup to carry out their “rape fantasies. According to authorities, Thomas even enlisted in the Air Force for military training, while Weisenburg joined a fire academy to gain skills to execute their scheme. Apparently inspired by trendsetting visionaries like Christopher Columbus and Sir Walter Raleigh, the North Texas human trafficking team even took lessons in Haitian Creole. The colonizing couple was charged with “conspiracy to murder, maim or kidnap in a foreign country,” the Washington Post reports. The feds also charged the Thomas Jefferson protégés with the production of child pornography.
Like King James (the guy who authorized the English Bible and the Jamestown settlement, not the basketball player), the duo also planned to recruit homeless “adventurers” to form an army before sailing to Gonave Island, the largest island surrounding Hispaniola, with a population of 87,000. According to Houston’s Fox 26, between Aug. 2024 and July 2025, Weisenburg and Thomas prepared for their island insurrection by creating the wildest timeline you’ll ever read:
On Aug. 5, 2024, Weisenburg enrolled at the North Texas Fire Academy in Rockwall. This was allegedly an effort to gain training in useful skills for their plot.
On Jan. 7, 2025, Thomas enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. The document says he intended to use his military training for the planned overthrow of the island.
On Feb. 8, 2025, Weisenburg failed out of fire training.
On Feb. 20, 2025, Weisenburg bought tickets to Thailand at least partially to enroll in a sailing course to prepare for reaching Gonâve Island. The indictment says once he arrived in Thailand, he never enrolled due to the cost of the course.
On March 14, 2025, Thomas managed to change his Air Force assignment from a base in Germany to one in Maryland. The indictment says this was both to stay in the U.S. to continue planning the coup and to attempt to recruit homeless people from the Washington, D.C. area.
The suspects are accused of attempting to recruit others to help with the
coup, both online and in person, on various dates from August 2024 to May 2025.
Weisenburg and Thomas are also accused of coercing a minor to engage in sex acts on camera on Aug. 31, 2024.
Weisenburg was arrested on July 3, 2025, on his charges. No arrest date for Thomas is publicly available.
While the indictment makes clear that these two white men had the caucasity but not the competency to pull off the plot, the pair does face serious prison time — up to 30 years for the child pornography charge and up to life for the conspiracy charge.
Fortunately, the white supremacists’ confederate coup was a lost cause.
Ex-aide to Republican congressman charged with faking politically motivated attack
Continuing on with more white nonsense, a former aide to a Republican congressman was arrested and charged with staging a politically motivated attack in which she claimed she was confronted by three men who beat her, zip-tied her and scrawled “Trump Whore” on her body.
According to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, Natalie Greene, 26, paid a body modification/scarification artist $500 to “deliberately cut the lacerations on her face, neck, upper chest, and shoulder, based on a pattern that she had provided beforehand.” Greene, who appeared in court on Wednesday and was released on $200,000 bond, was charged with one count of conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and one count of making false statements to federal law enforcement. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
This all began on July 23, when Greene had a co-conspirator called 911 to report that she and Greene had been attacked by three men while walking on a nature reserve trail in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. By the time police found Greene, her feet and hands were bound by black zip ties, with “numerous lacerations on her face, neck, upper chest, and shoulder.” The words “Trump Whore” were written on her stomach, and her boss’ name and the words “Is Racist” were scrawled on her back. She even claimed the three men held her at gunpoint.
Greene’s story started to fall apart when police found black zip ties and duct tape in her Maserati on the night of the so-called attack. A further investigation revealed that two days prior, her co-conspirator did a search on her phone for “zip ties near me.”
The complaint doesn’t name Greene’s former boss, but the New York Times notes that Greene had been working at the time for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.).
His office wasted no time in pushing this hot, stinky mess away from the congressman.
“While Natalie is no longer associated with the congressman’s government office, our thoughts and prayers are with her and hope she’s getting the care she needs,” read a statement from his office.
There’s no word on whether the co-conspirator will be charged, but Jussie Smollett has not filed a civil suit for infringement of intellectual property.
Ohio officer found not guilty of murder in the death of Ta’Kiya Young
On Friday, a jury found Ohio police officer Connor Grubb not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting death of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old mother of two who was pregnant with her third child at the time of her death. She was suspected of shoplifting—which is not a death penalty crime.
Bodycam footage from the Aug. 24, 2023 incident shows Grubb, who works for the Blendon Township Police Department, standing in front of Young’s parked car as another officer, Sgt. Erick Moynihan, orders her to get out of the vehicle after a Kroger employee accused her of stealing alcohol. At one point in the video, you can hear Young say, “Are you going to shoot me?” In an attempt to drive away, Young turned the wheel to the right. As the car heads toward Grubb, the officer shoots her in the chest, killing her and her unborn child.
Blendon Township Police Department’s use-of-force policy makes it clear that “When feasible, officers should take reasonable steps to move out of the path of an approaching vehicle instead of discharging their firearm at the vehicle or any of its occupants.”
Instead of following department policy for what was, at the time, an accusation of misdemeanor theft (again, not a death penalty crime), Grubb put himself in a position where he had to use deadly force, which even surprised the other officer on the scene.
“Sergeant Moynihan told us that he himself did not perceive Ms. Young to be a threat at all,” the prosecution said. ABC reports. “He didn’t even have his weapon drawn. He stated that it surprised him when he heard the sound of a gunshot. He said, ‘I wasn’t expecting that.’”
Young’s family said in a statement that they plan to file a civil lawsuit.
“Our civil case will prove what the jury could not find beyond a reasonable doubt,” the family said in their statement, according to ABC. “We will show that Grubb created the danger by positioning himself in front of her vehicle with his weapon drawn.”
Grubb, who was also cleared of involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault, has been on unpaid leave since June. After the verdict, the Columbus Dispatch reports that Township Police Chief John Belford will ask that Grubb be returned to paid leave.
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