Pro-PalestinianLiberation Front group plot to bomb multiple targets in California
The FBI says it has foiled a bomb plot targeting multiple targets, including immigration agents and vehicles in California.
Monday 15 December 2025 20:14, UK
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Four people have been charged with plotting New Year's Eve bomb attacks in California.
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Four people have been charged with plotting New Year's Eve bomb attacks in California.
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.
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.
The suspects were arrested last week in Lucerne Valley, a desert city east of Los Angeles.
Image:Photos of suspects of the terror plot are shown on a screen during a press conference. Pic: AP
They are said to be members of an offshoot of a pro-Palestinian, anti-government and anti-capitalist group dubbed the Turtle Island Liberation Front, the complaint said.
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.
The four defendants named in the complaint are Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30, Zachary Aaron Page, 32, Dante Gaffield, 24 and Tina Lai, 41.
All four are from the Los Angeles area, according to first assistant US attorney Bill Essayli.
Image:Evidence photos show what investigators said were bomb-making materials strewn across plastic folding tables. Pic: Department of Justice
The alleged plot
According to a sworn statement in support of the complaint, Carroll showed an eight-page handwritten document to a paid confidential source in November, which described a bomb plot.
The document was titled "Operation Midnight Sun".
Essayli said one of the suspects created a detailed plan that "included step-by-step instructions to build IEDs (improvised explosive devices)… and listed multiple targets across Orange County and Los Angeles."
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