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FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga. - Members of a Georgia-based Black separatist group arrested after a SWAT standoff and alleged kidnapping and sexual assault are will have to wait a while longer for their trial in Fayette County.

Fayetteville police arrested 36-year-old Augustus Romain and 21-year-old Xavier Rushin in July 2022 in connection with the standoff at a home in the Woodbyne subdivision off of White Road. They were set to start their jury trial Monday, but now a judge has pushed the case to the spring.

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In the warrant released to the public after the arrests, the Fayetteville Police Department says that two men had been forced at gunpoint from part of the home into its padlock-locked garage and were not allowed to leave.

Officials allege that Romain, who also goes by the name "Gazi Kodo" is the leader of a group known as the Black Hammer Party, an organization that describes itself as a "symbol of hope for the colonized working class" and which police say they have documented as a "criminal street gang." Rushin, also known as "Keeno," and Ammons, aka "AP," were both members of the group, the warrant states.

According to the warrant, Romain ordered both Rushin and Ammons to point guns at the two victims and forced them into the garage so that he "could anally sodomize" at least one of them.

Rushin was arrested by officers outside the home after police say they found him walking Romain's dog when they arrived. When police tried to approach him, investigators say he tried to pull away and reached for a gun in his pocket.

WARRANTS REVEAL NEW DETAILS IN FAYETTEVILLE KIDNAPPING, STANDOFF AT BLACK HAMMER HOME

Romain is charged with two counts of aggravated sodomy, conspiracy to commit a felony, false imprisonment (party to a crime), kidnappings (party to a crime), aggravated assault (party to a crime), and criminal street gang activity. Rushin is charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit a felony, false imprisonment, kidnapping, aggravated assault, criminal street gang activity, and obstructing or hindering a law enforcement officer,

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