FBI Foils Far-Left New Year's Eve Bomb Plot Targeting LA Businesses and ICE Agents

Here we go again with the radical left's unhinged hatred boiling over into outright domestic terrorism.

A band of far-left extremists, hiding behind bizarre aliases and anti-American slogans, plotted to unleash pipe bomb chaos on New Year's Eve in Los Angeles—and then turn their sights on killing federal immigration agents.

Federal prosecutors say four members of the "Order of the Black Lotus," a radical splinter of the anti-capitalist Turtle Island Liberation Front, planned "Operation Midnight Sun": stuffing backpacks with improvised explosive devices and planting them at multiple logistics centers tied to U.S. companies.

The suspects, Audrey Ilene Carroll, 30, known as "Asiginaak" or "black moon"; Zachary Aaron Page, 32, alias "Ash Kerrigan," "AK" or "cthulu’s daughter"; Dante Garfield (also reported as Gaffield), 24, called "Cedar" or "Nomad"; and Tina Lai, 41, alias "Kickwhere," were arrested Dec. 12 in Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert.

Video captured them attempting to detonate test explosives, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said at a Monday news conference.

After the New Year's attacks, the group allegedly planned follow-up pipe bomb strikes on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and vehicles starting in January or February 2026.

According to the criminal complaint, Carroll stated the blasts "would take some of them out and scare the rest of them."

Searches uncovered posters proclaiming "Death to America," "Death to ICE" and "Long live Turtle Island and Palestine."

Each faces federal charges of conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device.

A fifth linked suspect was arrested in New Orleans for allegedly planning a separate attack.

Federal authorities thwarted a coordinated far-left terror campaign targeting businesses and law enforcement just weeks before it could have claimed innocent lives.