Jury selection set to open in terrorism trial of extended family stemming from 2018 New Mexico raid

Published September 24, 2023 10:08 PM

By MORGAN LEE
Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin as members of an extended family face trial on kidnapping and terrorism charges linked to a law enforcement raid on their squalid New Mexico encampment in 2018. Authorities at the time were seeking a missing, sickly 3-year-old boy whose remains were eventually found in an underground tunnel at the compound. Trial is scheduled to open Monday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque against two men and three women. They have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to support planned attacks on government institutions. Defense attorneys say their clients would not be facing terrorism-related charges if they were not Muslim.

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