A plan to attack several Los Angeles-area businesses on New Year\u2019s Eve was detailed, dangerous and already in motion, authorities said.<\/p>\n
But as four people allegedly tied to an anti-government group gathered last week in the Mojave Desert to make and test several test bombs, FBI officials foiled the terror plot. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey had everything they needed to make an operational bomb at that location,\u201d First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli said at a news conference Monday morning. \u201cWe disrupted this terror plot before buildings were demolished or innocent people were killed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The four people were arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack that Essayli called \u201corganized, sophisticated and extremely violent.\u201d They were all tied to a radical faction of the Turtle Island Liberation Front called Order of the Black Lotus, which FBI Assistant Director in Charge Akil Davis called \u201ca violent homegrown anti-government group.\u201d <\/p>\n
Officials wouldn\u2019t say what buildings or businesses were planned to be targeted but Essayli said they were different \u201clogistics centers\u201d similar to ones that Amazon might have. <\/p>\n
Officials said they believe that everyone involved in the planned attack has been arrested, though the investigation into the plot remains ongoing. <\/p>\n
The four alleged conspirators, Audrey Carroll, Zachary Page, Dante Gaffield and Tina Lai, have been charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device, Essayli said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe subjects arrested envisioned planting backpacks with improvised explosive devices to be detonated at multiple locations in Southern California, targeting U.S. companies,\u201d Davis said. <\/p>\n
The plans the FBI uncovered also included follow-up attacks after the bombings, which included plans to target ICE agents and vehicles with pipe bombs, Essayli said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plan to attack several Los Angeles-area businesses on New Year\u2019s Eve was detailed, dangerous and already in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52552,1794,52553,5781,4188,7,9,8,52554,52550,52551,1135,5936,18754,592,3230,1009,52555],"class_list":["post-95583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-anti-government-group","tag-attack","tag-audrey-carroll","tag-bill-essayli","tag-building","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-dante-gaffield","tag-eve-terror-plot","tag-fbi-official","tag-fed","tag-location","tag-new-year","tag-people","tag-plan","tag-southern-california","tag-unregistered-destructive-device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}