{"id":193280,"date":"2025-12-15T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193280\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:43:08","slug":"four-charged-with-new-years-eve-plot-to-bomb-multiple-targets-in-california-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193280\/","title":{"rendered":"Four charged with New Year’s Eve plot to bomb multiple targets in California | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four people have been charged with plotting New Year’s Eve bomb attacks in California.<\/p>\n

Federal authorities in the US said the four are allegedly part of an extremist group which is suspected of planning the attacks in southern California.<\/p>\n

The plot consisted of planting explosive devices at five locations targeting two US companies at midnight on New Year’s Eve in the Los Angeles area.<\/p>\n

The suspects were arrested last week in Lucerne Valley, a desert city east of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

They are said to be members of an offshoot of a pro-Palestinian group dubbed the Turtle Island Liberation Front, the complaint said.<\/p>\n

As well as the alleged plan against the two companies, the group also planned to target Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and vehicles, attorney general Pam Bondi said.<\/p>\n

The four defendants named in the complaint are Audrey Illeene Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page, Dante Gaffield, and Tina Lai.<\/p>\n

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Image:
\n Photos of suspects of the terror plot are shown on a screen during a press conference. Pic: AP<\/p>\n

The alleged plot<\/p>\n

According to a sworn statement by the complaint, Carroll showed an eight-page handwritten document to a paid confidential source in November, which described a bomb plot.<\/p>\n

The document was titled “Operation Midnight”.<\/p>\n

Carroll and Page are then alleged to have recruited the other two defendants to help them carry out the plan which included acquiring bomb-making materials before constructing and performing test detonations.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, the defendants would supposedly have travelled to a remote location in the Mojave Desert on the 12 December to construct and detonate their test explosive devices, the sworn statement alleges.<\/p>\n

However, FBI agents intervened before they could complete their work to assemble a functional explosive device.<\/p>\n

\"FBI<\/p>\n

Image:
\n FBI assistant director in charge Akil Davis speaks at a press briefing on the incident. Pic: AP<\/p>\n

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