(KRQE) A woman at the center of the 2018 Taos County compound case is expected to spend more than a decade in federal prison amid accusations she led adults and children in an effort to prepare for violent attacks in the U.S. Jany Leveille, 40, pleaded guilty Friday to two charges in a case that unfolded after authorities found the remains of a three-year-old boy and eleven malnourished children amid a cache of weapons and ammunition.
Leveille did not plead to any terror charges. Instead, she pleaded guilty to “conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S.” and “possession of a firearm while unlawfully in the U.S.” She and four other adults were living in a compound near Amalia, just south of the Colorado state line between December 2017 and August 2018. Federal investigators accused the group of training their children to carry out future attacks on schools, banks, a hospital and government buildings.
