Sanneh then fled to Washington, D.C. where he met fellow refugee from the Gambia and former officer of the Kentucky National Guard Njaga Jagne.

Banka Manneh, another Gambian refugee who was Sanneh's friend, claimed he would be able to gather a force of 160 soldiers from inside The Gambia to assist in the coup.

[12] After the coup failed, Papa Faal, one of the co-conspirators, entered the United States embassy in Dakar, Senegal seeking protection.

The owner of the Texas firm, Cherno Nije, was arrested at Washington Dulles International Airport and charged with violating the successor statute to the Neutrality Act of 1794.

[19] The Washington Post later revealed that the FBI had interviewed Sanneh at his home in Maryland and thereafter tipped off Senegalese officials about the plot through the State Department.

[15] It was reported on 2 April 2017 that the corpses of three alleged conspirators, Lamin Sanneh, Alagie Nyass and Njaga Jagne were discovered by Gambian police after the fall of the Jammeh regime.