ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal judge has ordered a woman charged with firearms and terrorism-related counts to be hospitalized for mental health treatment more than a year after authorities arrested her and four other adult residents of a squalid New Mexico compound. Leveille has been described in court documents as a leader of the group of extended family members who had been living at the compound in remote northern New Mexico. Taos County sheriff’s officials raided it in August 2018, saying they found 11 hungry children, a firing range and firearms. He was the son of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, one of the five suspects and Leveille’s partner, and had been reported missing by his mother in Georgia. Kari Converse, who is Leveille’s attorney, called the decision to hospitalize her client “critical,” given due process requires defendants understand what is happening when they are in court.

Source: thestar October 18, 2019 23:16 UTC