<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An American man who spent a year discussing extreme conspiracies with a family behind the </span><a href="http://www.9news.com.au/wieambilla" rel="" target="" title="Wieambilla"><span>Wieambilla</span></a><span> shootings has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Donald Day, 58, was arrested in the United States after a year-long investigation into his contact with Gareth, Nathaniel and Stacey Train before the trio killed two police officers and a neighbour at their rural </span><a href="http://www.9news.com.au/queensland" rel="" target="" title="Queensland"><span>Queensland</span></a><span> property.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Day faced the US Federal Court in Arizona on Friday AEST after making a deal with prosecutors in October 2025 to plead guilty to a charge of possessing firearms as a convicted felon.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/liberal-party-leadership-spill-angus-taylor-defeats-sussan-ley/e02a6189-6fb5-4262-af53-7c5acea1c826"><strong><span>Angus Taylor emerges victorious from Liberal leadership spill</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>His prior charges of threatening World Health Organisation figures and FBI agents as well as possessing an illegal shotgun were dropped.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Day used the name "Geronimo's Bones" to exchange comments and videos on YouTube with the Trains between May 2021 to December 2022, US District Judge John Tuchi heard.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brothers Nathaniel, 46, and Gareth, 47, used high-powered rifles during an ambush to kill Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, at Wieambilla in December 2022.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/wieambilla-donald-day-us-man-jailed-over-links-to-queensland-police-shooting-deaths-court-news/cffde790-019c-4404-8b9b-117816b8c19a" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/nancy-guthrie-suspect-description-and-backpack/f5533911-7080-42fa-bd6a-e53ff3e4e504"><strong><span>FBI issues new details of suspect in Nancy Guthrie case</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Gareth Train's wife Stacey, 45, and the brothers fatally shot neighbour Alan Dare, 58, soon afterwards.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Day was mentioned in the last video the Trains ever made, filmed before they were killed in a shootout with tactical officers hours after the Wieambilla ambush.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"They came to us, and we killed them," Gareth and Stacey Train said in the video.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We'll see you when we go home. We'll see you at home, Don. Love you."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/victorian-cannabis-bust-men-allegedly-flee-into-bush-after-police-bust-10-million-cannabis-crop/1fb01ead-a614-4101-ac4f-ef2242dc63fe"><strong><span>Men seen fleeing into bush after police bust $10 million cannabis crop</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Day responded to the video saying: "those bastards will regret that they ever f***ed with us".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Queensland Police officers had been due to testify at Day's now aborted trial about the alleged serious danger the American's threats posed due to his association with the Trains.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Day had prepared a sniper's nest for a confrontation with police and told the Trains to do the same with "determination and fury", saying he looked forward to "taking the scalps of our enemies".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Day encountered the Train family through public comments and videos posted around a "similar, distrustful view of society".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A Queensland inquest in November 2025 found the Trains were delusional and believed "war had reached their gates" in the form of a battle to the death with Satanic entities disguised as police.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It was the Trains' shared psychotic disorders, not their communications with Mr Day, that explained their actions," Day's lawyer, Jon Sands, told the US court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mr Sands called for his client to be sentenced to two years and three months with 12 months of supervised release.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prosecutor Timothy Courchaine asked for a sentence of three years and 10 months with three years' supervised release.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Day was sentenced to 36 months' imprisonment minus time already served.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He had spent two years and three months in custody since his December 2023 arrest by the FBI in Arizona.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Day will be on supervised release for three years after serving at least 90 per cent of his term.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was also ordered to forfeit his firearms and ammunition, including military-style rifles, shotguns and handguns.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.</span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><ul><li><p><strong><span>Download the 9NEWS App here via </span></strong><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727"><strong><span>Apple</span></strong></a><strong><span> and </span></strong><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&amp;hl=en_AU&amp;pli=1"><strong><span>Google Play</span></strong></a></p></li><li><p><strong><span>Make 9News your preferred source on Google by </span></strong><a href="https://9.nine.com.au/8x987w"><strong><span>ticking this box here</span></strong></a></p></li><li><p><strong><span>Sign up to </span></strong><a href="https://login.nine.com.au/edm?client_id=nineatnine"><strong><span>our breaking newsletter here</span></strong></a></p></li></ul></div></div>