An anti-government extremist group’s plans for terror attacks in Orange County and Los Angeles have been disrupted, the FBI discloses.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, on Monday, announced the group, Turtle Island Liberation Front, a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group, she described, planned to take out ICE agents and vehicles.
Bill Essayli, assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, and Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, said that four people—identified as Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41—as members of the group, were arrested and charged.
The four people arrested allegedly planned to plant backpacks containing improvised explosive devices “to be detonated at multiple locations in Southern California targeting U.S. companies.
The IEDs were coordinated to detonate at midnight on New Year’s Eve, Davis said, adding that the suspects were arrested Friday by the FBI while they were allegedly assembling the devices in the desert.
All four will appear in federal court Monday afternoon, according to officials.
