{"id":323130,"date":"2025-10-22T06:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323130\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:20:27","slug":"donald-day-jr-us-conspiracy-theorist-connected-to-wieambilla-killers-formally-enters-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323130\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Day Jr, US conspiracy theorist connected to Wieambilla killers, formally enters plea deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The families of police officers murdered in an ambush at Wieambilla would be “immensely” hurt to learn a conspiracy theorist connected to the killers had entered a watered-down plea deal to US charges, the Queensland premier says.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Townsville on Wednesday, David Crisafulli described the 2022 murders of police officers Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, along with neighbour Alan Dare<\/a>, as a “crime that rocked the Queensland police family”.<\/p>\n

“It rocked the state,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

he said.\"A<\/p>\n

Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow were killed during the Wieambilla shootings. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

US-based conspiracy theorist Donald Day Jr, who was in touch with two of the murderers, has had a watered down plea deal to a single charge filed in an Arizona court.<\/p>\n

Mr Crisafulli said news of the plea deal, where Day admitted to possessing guns as a felon, but charges relating to threats against US police were dropped, would “rock” the families of those killed and “hurt them immensely”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement, Rachel McCrow’s mother, Judy McCrow, said she was “disappointed” with the plea deal.<\/p>\n

“He chose to continue correspondence with the Wieambilla murderers and continued to support and encourage them,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“His correspondence (with the killers) is self-incriminating.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Queensland Police Union president Shane Prior agreed the news was “extremely disappointing”.<\/p>\n

“This is not a good result and that criminal should spend the rest of his life behind bars,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Prior said he had been in touch with the families of the police officers who were murdered and shared their “heartbreak”.<\/p>\n

Day supported extremists<\/p>\n

Court documents revealed Day, through online profile “Geronimo’s Bones”, had been in touch with Queenslanders Gareth and Stacey Train.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It started as a routine police call. By the end of the night, six people were dead<\/a><\/p>\n

On December 12, 2022, three innocent people were ambushed by extremists and murdered in cold blood in a country Queensland town. Why it occurred may never be fully understood.<\/p>\n

The pair, along with Gareth’s brother Nathaniel, killed two police officers who were responding to a missing persons’ report at the rural property in December 2022.<\/p>\n

They also killed their neighbour, and left two other officers fighting for their lives, before they were killed in a shootout with specialist police.<\/p>\n

Court documents detailed how Gareth and Stacey Train had posted an apocalyptic video on YouTube after the shootings where they said authorities “came to kills us and we killed them”.<\/p>\n

“We’ll see you at home, Don. Love you,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

they said.\"a<\/p>\n

Alan Dare was also killed. (
\n ABC News: Cindy Wockner
\n )<\/p>\n

Day responded that he wished “that I could be with you to do what I do best”.<\/p>\n

In another post, he wrote his “brave brother and sister” had “done exactly what they were supposed to do, and that is to kill these f***ing devils”, documents stated.<\/p>\n

Authorities in the US later charged Day with offences including threatening the director-general of the World Health Organization and police, and possession of weapons.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Warning signs at Donald Day’s Arizona property. (AAP: FBI & District Court of Arizona)<\/p>\n

Plea deal<\/p>\n

According to a deal filed in Arizona this week, authorities and Day agreed he would admit to possessing firearms and ammunition while a convicted felon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Court documents stated Day admitted to storing the majority of the firearms at his Arizona property, in a “gun room”, while one was kept in a shed.<\/p>\n

The deal stated Day pleaded guilty to having used the firearms and ammunition, and while he did not purchase all of the armaments, he admitted to possessing them.<\/p>\n

Day had previously been convicted of multiple offences including violence against authorities, larceny and a prison assault.<\/p>\n

\"Guns<\/p>\n

Guns stored at Donald Day’s property. (AAP: FBI & District Court of Arizona)<\/p>\n

Documents made public earlier this year stated that other remaining charges \u2014 two for threats and one for an unregistered firearm \u2014 would be dropped.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That included an allegation he had threatened Federal Bureau of Investigation officers when being arrested in December 2023.<\/p>\n

He was accused of telling them: “If anything happens to my wife, and I ever get out of these cuffs, I\u2019ll come for every f***ng one of you. How\u2019s that? You better kill me, if you f*** my wife up, you hurt her in any way, you better kill me here and now.”<\/p>\n

The plea deal included a stipulation Day’s sentence would not exceed the “low end” of the sentencing cap.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Day’s maximum punishment would be a $250,000 fine and, or, 15 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The families of police officers murdered in an ambush at Wieambilla would be “immensely” hurt to learn a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":323131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,10934,4795,161417,50,4797,4798],"class_list":{"0":"post-323130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-brisbane","10":"tag-david-crisafulli","11":"tag-donald-day-jr","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-qld","14":"tag-queensland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115416375868724559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}