![]() ![]() It was a lot of the FBI, and God,” he said. “Dan Day is just an average guy who, when confronted with a situation that he didn't want and he didn't ask for, dug down deep and found the heart of a hero,” said Mattivi, who retired last year and, as a Republican, is now running to become the next attorney general of Kansas.ĭay rejected the notion that he’s any kind of hero. "He saw that humanity comes first, and he saw that we were beyond what they described us to be. "He put his family, himself, in jeopardy for us," she said. “No one else had to suffer, and we're coming out on top,” Alyssa Day said, even as she acknowledged the experience has affected her dad in “negative ways too.”ĭay believes he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, and he said nightmares of mayhem and mangled babies still haunt him at times.Īhmed, the leader in Garden City's Somali community, described Day as "one of the things that make America great." Over a game of Monopoly one night, Day’s college-age daughter told her “old man” not to regret anything, because what he did saved lives. He said he has only one regret: “That had to go through the things that they did.” ‘The heart of a hero’Īs terrifying as his ordeal was, Day said what he went through shows “you don’t have to be friends” with people who are different, “but you don’t have to hate them” either. “What I will say is that there is a WHOLE LOT MORE to the story than has ever come out.” “I’m not going to say there isn’t some truth in what you’re reading about me and the case – kinda hard to deny actual recordings,” he wrote. In handwritten letters from federal prison in Beaumont, Texas, Stein told ABC News the public is “only hearing the government’s version of things,” which “make me look as horrible as possible.” Stein was sentenced to 30 years behind bars. … I mean, I’ll be honest with you, there are a bunch of kids there.”Īllen and Wright were each sentenced to at least 25 years in prison. In the bed of Stein’s pickup truck were six 50-pound bags of fertilizer, for car bombs. Three weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Brian and Stein met inside a local McDonald’s restaurant. “That’s where the bromance kicks in, because Patrick says, ‘Oh, there’s no way Brian’s a cop.’” The takedown ![]() “I didn't think he'd go through with it,” Mattivi said of Stein.īut then “much to my surprise, and the surprise of a few others, Patrick actually shows up,” Mattivi recalled. “That's another sort of ‘Oh s-’ moment for ,” Mattivi said, explaining that Allen’s arrest could have pushed Stein and Wright to “hurry up and commit a different act of violence,” or could have at least stymied the FBI investigation.Īfter all, according to Mattivi, Wright warned Stein to scrap his next meet-up with Brian. “It’s starting to sound like a CIA setup.” “It just sounds weird,” he said on one recording. Wright liked the idea of acquiring a bomb from someone Day knew and trusted: “That beats making it unless we have to,” Wright said. ![]() “ guys, they’re the real deal,” Day is heard insisting in one of his recordings. Day had vaguely mentioned such connections to Stein months earlier, so it wouldn’t have seemed out of the blue to Stein. Under the FBI’s direction, Day told the group at G&G one day that he had ties to gun-running criminals in Oklahoma with access to “anything,” even bombs. The FBI decided it was time to introduce an undercover agent into the operation - someone who could “get them away from making their own explosives” and help the FBI control the plot, Kuhn said. ![]() “But he felt like there was no way he could stop.” The group’s plot was developing faster than the FBI expected, and Day “was petrified of continuing to work as an informant,” Mattivi said. ![]()
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