
WICHITA -One of three suspects accused in a domestic terror plot in southwest Kansas will be in federal court on Monday.
Curtis Allen, Patrick Stein and Gavin Wright are charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. They were arrested in what the government calls a foiled plot to attack an apartment complex home to Somali Muslims in Garden City on Nov. 9. Allen is expected to be in court on Monday.
On Friday Gavin Wright waived a detention hearing and pleaded not guilty in what prosecutors say was a conspiracy by a militia group to detonate truck bombs at the apartment complex.
Wright’s decision means the 51-year-old from Liberal, remains in federal custody pending trial. Defense attorney Kari Schmidt told the court she and Wright have concerns about his safety if he’s released.
Patrick Stein also appeared in court on Friday.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gwynne Birzer ruled that Stein would remain in jail while he awaits trial. Birzer said Stein poses a “grave danger.”
Stein pleaded not guilty to conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Defense attorney Ed Robinson says his client was led by the government’s paid informant and an FBI undercover agent.
-The Associated Press contributed to this report.