Conspiracy theorist accused of links to Queensland police shootings offered plea deal by US prosecutors

Donald Day Jr was arrested by the FBI in December 2023, a year after two police officers were shot dead by the Train family at Wieambilla

An American man accused of links to the family who gunned down two Queensland police officers has been offered a plea deal by US federal prosecutors.

Donald Day Jr, 58, was arrested in December 2023 by the FBI in Arizona on two counts of “interstate threats” 12 months after the shootings at rural Wieambilla, west of Brisbane.