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Cities Tighten or Cancel New Year’s Events After Foiled LA Bomb Plot and New Threat Advisories

Law enforcement urges vigilance at large gatherings due to risk assessments highlighting potential attack methods.

Overview

  • Federal authorities say they disrupted an alleged coordinated IED plan in Los Angeles, arresting Audrey Illeene Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page, Dante Gaffield, and Tina Lai during a Mojave Desert rehearsal captured by aerial surveillance.
  • Joint advisories warn that high-profile venues such as Chicago’s Navy Pier and New York’s Times Square are attractive targets, highlighting vehicle-ramming and drone risks while noting no specific, credible plots publicly identified for those events.
  • Prosecutors detailed surveillance evidence in a criminal complaint and announced terrorism-related charges, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and related offenses.
  • New Orleans officials requested heightened security after the arrest of Micah James Legnon in a separate investigation, with authorities alleging ties to the Turtle Island Liberation Front.
  • Several cities scaled back or canceled celebrations, including Paris canceling its Champs-Élysées concert, Tokyo scrapping the Shibuya countdown, and Sydney dropping Bondi Beach fireworks.