{"id":71432,"date":"2025-12-15T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71432\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:16:10","slug":"far-left-extremists-who-allegedly-planned-la-new-years-eve-terror-attack-also-wanted-to-take-out-ice-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71432\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-left extremists who allegedly planned LA New Year&#8217;s Eve terror attack also wanted to &#8216;take out&#8217; ICE agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of far-left extremists allegedly planned to kill ICE agents after carrying out their <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/15\/us-news\/fbi-stops-planned-new-years-eve-los-angeles-terror-attack-by-pro-palestinian-cell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Year\u2019s Eve terror plot<\/a> against American businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Four bizarrely nicknamed members of a group known as the \u201cOrder of the Black Lotus\u201d \u2014 a splinter group of the \u201canti-capitalist\u201d Turtle Island Liberation Front \u2014 planned to plant pipe bombs at two US companies in Los Angeles, according to a federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, the group planned to attack federal immigration agents and their vehicles with pipe bombs beginning in January or February 2026 \u2014 in the hopes the blasts \u201cwould take some of them out and scare the rest of them,\u201d according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Assistant Director in Charge Akil Davis (right) is flanked by Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna (second from left) and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell (second from right) while announcing developments on a terrorism investigation. AP<\/p>\n<p>Alleged evidence presented by the US Justice Department in the indictment of members of the \u201cTurtle Island Liberation Front.\u201d US Justice Department<\/p>\n<p>More evidence that was listed under the \u201cTurtle Island Liberation Front\u201d investigation. US Justice Department<\/p>\n<p>The New Year\u2019s Eve plot, dubbed \u201cOperation Midnight Sun,\u201d consisted of planting backpacks stuffed with bombs at two companies, according to a handwritten plan discovered by investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Four suspects were arrested: Audrey Carroll, 30, also known as \u201cAsiginaak\u201d and \u201cblack moon\u201d; Zachary Page, 32, who went by \u201cAsh Kerrigan,\u201d \u201cAK\u201d and \u201ccthulu\u2019s daughter\u201d; Dante Garfield, 24, known as \u201cCedar\u201d or \u201cNomad\u201d; and Tina Lai, 41, whose alias was \u201cKickwhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Search warrants also found signs declaring \u201cDeath to America,\u201d \u201cDeath to ICE\u201d and \u201cLong live Turtle Island and Palestine,\u201d officials announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey Carroll, Zachary Page, Dante Gaffield and Tina Lai were all described as members of the anti-capitalist and anti-government group known as the \u201cTurtle Island Liberation Front.\u201d FBI<\/p>\n<p>The FBI arrested 4 alleged members of a radical pro-Palestinian group accused of plotting New Year\u2019s Eve bombings. @turtleislandliberationfrontla\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were busted in Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert, where they were caught on video trying to detonate improvised explosive devices, Los Angeles First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli told reporters at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>They were each charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth unidentified suspect was arrested in New Orleans while planning a separate attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of far-left extremists allegedly planned to kill ICE agents after carrying out their New Year\u2019s Eve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5970,2035,9,11,10,3694,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-71432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-fbi","9":"tag-ice","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-terrorism","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}