PLANO, Texas — Federal agents accused two Texas men of hatching an outlandish and unsettling plot to take over a Haitian island through an “armed coup,” murder all of its men and then use its ”women and children as sex slaves."

Federal prosecutors say Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, of Allen, Texas, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of Argyle, Texas, planned to lead an “expeditionary force” ― comprised of members of Washington, D.C.’s homeless population ― to overtake Gonâve Island and help the pair “carry out their rape fantasies.”

The U.S. Department of Justice announced their indictments on charges of conspiracy to murder, maim, or kidnap in a foreign country and production of child pornography on Thursday.

Investigators said they spent nearly a year learning Haitian Creole and “planned to purchase a sailboat, firearms and ammunition” to facilitate their invasion of Gonâve, home to about 87,000 people.

According to the indictment, Weisenburg enrolled in a fire academy “for the purpose of obtaining training in command-and-control protocols that could be useful during their armed coup attack,” but ultimately failed.

“Thomas even enlisted in the U.S. Air Force to acquire military skills relevant to the invasion plan,” a DOJ news release states.

Thomas, prosecutors said, changed his initial base assignment from one in Germany to Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George’s County, Maryland in order to be near Washington to recruit the capital’s homeless population as mercenaries.

The duo’s cases are being prosecuted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. They could spend the rest of their lives in prison, prosecutors said.

Men accused of bizarre plot to invade Haitian island, use women, children as ‘sex slaves’

Scheme involved plan to recruit homeless mercenaries for ‘armed coup’: Feds

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