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Thursday, August 9, 2018
East Oregonian
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Documents: Man at compound trained kids for school shooting
By MORGAN LEE
and MARY HUDETZ
Associated Press
TAOS, N.M. — A father
arrested at a ramshackle New
Mexico compound where 11
children were found living in
filth was training youngsters
to commit school shootings,
prosecutors said in court doc-
uments obtained Wednesday.
The allegations against
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj came to
light as authorities awaited
word on whether human
remains discovered at the
site were those of his missing
son, who is severely disabled
and went missing in Decem-
ber in Jonesboro, Georgia,
near Atlanta.
The documents say Wah-
haj was conducting weapons
training with assault rifles at
the compound near the Col-
orado border that was raided
by authorities Friday.
Prosecutor Timothy Has-
son filed the court documents
while asking that Wahhaj
be held without bail after he
was arrested last week with
four other adults facing child
abuse charges.
“He poses a great danger
to the children found on the
property as well as a threat
to the community as a whole
due to the presence of fire-
arms and his intent to use
these firearms in a violent
and illegal manner,” Hasson
wrote.
Prosecutors did not bring
up the school shooting accu-
sation during initial court
hearings Wednesday for the
abuse suspects. A judge
ordered them all held with-
out bond pending further
proceedings.
In the court documents,
authorities said a foster par-
ent of one of the 11 children
removed from the compound
had told authorities the child
had been trained to use an
assault rifle in preparation for
a school shooting.
Taos County Sheriff Jerry
Hogrefe previously said
AP Photo/Morgan Lee
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, left, sits next to public defense attor-
ney Aleks Kostich at a first appearance in New Mexico
state district court in Taos, N.M.
Wahhaj, saying the claim was
presented with little infor-
mation beyond the explana-
tion that it came from a fos-
ter parent.
Kostich believes prosecu-
tors are not certain about the
credibility of the foster par-
ent, whom he has no way of
reaching to verify the claim,
adults at the compound were
“considered extremist of the
Muslim belief.” He did not
elaborate, saying it was part
of the investigation.
Aleks Kostich of the
Taos County Public Defend-
er’s Office questioned the
new accusation of a school
shooting conspiracy against
New York congressman charged with insider trading
NEW YORK (AP) —
Republican U.S. Rep. Chris-
topher Collins of New York
was arrested Wednesday on
charges he fed inside infor-
mation he gleaned from sit-
ting on the board of a bio-
technology corporation to
his son, helping family and
friends dodge hundreds of
thousands of dollars in losses
when one of the company’s
drugs failed in a medical
trial.
Collins, a staunch sup-
porter of President Don-
ald Trump who was among
the first sitting members
of Congress to endorse his
candidacy for the White
House, pleaded not guilty
to an indictment unsealed
at a court in Manhattan. The
indictment charges Collins,
his son and the father of the
son’s fiancee with conspir-
acy, securities fraud, wire
fraud and making false state-
ments to the FBI.
Speaking to reporters
in Buffalo hours after his
release on bail, Collins, 68,
professed his innocence and
said he would remain on the
ballot for re-election this fall.
“I believe I acted prop-
erly and within the law at
all times,” he said. “I will
mount a vigorous defense
in court to clear my name. I
look forward to being fully
vindicated and exonerated.”
Prosecutors said the
charges stem from Collins’
decision to share with his son
insider information about
Innate Immunotherapeutics
Ltd., a biotechnology com-
pany headquartered in Syd-
ney, Australia, with offices
in Auckland, New Zea-
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with nearly 17 percent of its
shares, and sat on its board.
According to the indict-
ment, Collins was attend-
ing the Congressional Picnic
at the White House on June
22, 2017, when he received
an email from the compa-
ny’s chief executive saying
that a trial of a drug the com-
pany developed to treat mul-
tiple sclerosis was a clinical
failure.
Collins responded to the
email, saying: “Wow. Makes
no sense. How are these
results even possible???” the
indictment said.
It said he then called his
son, Cameron Collins, and,
he said.
The human remains were
being analyzed by medi-
cal examiners to determine
if they are those of Abdul-
ghani Wahhaj, the missing
boy.
Earlier this year, his grand-
father, Imam Siraj Wahhaj,
posted a plea on Facebook
for help finding his grandson.
The elder Wahhaj heads
the Masjid At-Taqwa in
Brooklyn, a mosque that
has attracted radical speak-
ers to over the years. He
met Mahmud Abouhalima
when he came to the site to
raise money for Muslims in
Afghanistan. Abouhalima
later helped bomb the World
Trade Center in 1993.
In a Georgia arrest war-
rant, authorities said 39-year-
old Siraj Ibn Wahhaj had
told his son’s mother that he
wanted to perform an exor-
cism on the child because he
believed he was possessed
by the devil. He later said he
was taking the child to a park
and didn’t return.
He is accused in Georgia
of kidnapping the boy.
The arrest warrant issued
there says the missing boy
has a condition caused by
lack of oxygen and blood
flow around the time of birth.
He cannot walk and requires
constant attention, his mother
told police.
For months, neighbors
worried about the squalid
compound built along a
remote New Mexico plain,
saying they took their con-
cerns to authorities long
before sheriff’s officials
raided the facility described
as a small camping trailer in
the ground.
The search at the com-
pound came amid a two-
month investigation that
included the FBI. Hogrefe
said federal agents surveilled
the area a few weeks ago but
did not find probable cause to
search the property.
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after several missed calls,
they spoke for more than six
minutes.
The
next
morning,
according to the indictment,
Cameron Collins began
selling his shares, unload-
ing enough over a two-day
period to avoid $570,900
in losses before a pub-
lic announcement of the
drug trial results. After the
announcement, the compa-
ny’s stock price plunged 92
percent.
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