Garden City Bomb Plot formed after Orlando nightclub attack

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – An FBI informant has testified that a Kansas militia member started trying to recruit other members to attack Muslim immigrants after the 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Dan Day told jurors Thursday that Patrick Stein called him after the Orlando attack by a man who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and said he was ready to take action and wanted him to go to a meeting to see “who was with him and who was not.” Day says it was the first time he recorded one of the group’s meetings for the FBI.

Day told jurors that Stein held three recruitment meetings in an effort to get other members of the Kansas Security Force to join them in killing Somalis.

Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen are charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights in an alleged plot to bomb a mosque and an apartment complex where many Muslim refugees lived in Garden City.