Taos County Sheriff’s Office

More recently, investigators with the Clayton County Police Department and the FBI began narrowing in on their whereabouts and determined Wahhaj was staying at an improvised compound in Amalia, near the Colorado border.

Taos Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said they believe the group made the compound – huts and trailers surrounded by tires and an earthen berm in the sparsely populated Costilla Meadows subdivision – and had been living there for some time.

The FBI had been surveilling the location, Hogrefe said, but did not believe they had enough probable cause to go onto the property.

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But then, someone inside the compound was able to get a note to the outside world.

“The message sent to a third party simply said in part, ‘We are starving and need food and water.”

The FBI investigation revealed the residents of the compound were most likely heavily armed and considered extremist of the Muslim belief. They believed that they needed to act quickly and needed to make sure they used the right tactics as the compound was designed to give the residents the advantage.

“We did an extensive search for the missing child, our primary target. We certainly didn’t want to leave that place and leave a child behind and I’m confident we did not. The child in question was not located at the compound. The only food we saw were a few potatoes and a box of rice in the filthy trailer, But what was most surprising, and heartbreaking was when the team located a total of five adults and 11 children that looked like third world country refugees not only with no food or fresh water, but with no shoes, personal hygiene and basically dirty rags for clothing. Trending: BREAKING: Hundreds Charged Worldwide In Takedown Of Largest Child Pornography Website When the teams arrived, Wahhaj and Morton refused to comply with demands and we could see that Wahhaj was armed with an “AR-15 rifle, five loaded 30-round magazines, and four loaded pistols, including one in his pocket when he was taken down. More rounds of ammo were found in a trailer buried in the ground. We didn’t have to go hands-on and no one got hurt, He was heavily armed but so were my guys, and my guys train for that stuff.” ~ Sheriff Hogrefe

He said the women refused to answer questions but have not been charged with any crimes.

Siraj Wahhaj, 40, the man suspected of abducting his son, is being held in the Taos County Adult Detention Center without bond on a warrant out of Georgia. Another man who was living at the compound, Lucas Morton of Atlanta, is charged with harboring a fugitive and is also behind bars, Albuquerque Journal News reports.

Mainstream media has gone away from reporting on Islam and their compounds in the United States even though they continue to grow in numbers. According to the FBI: