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FBI Says It Foiled New Year’s Eve LA Bomb Plot Linked to TILF, With Four Charged and a Fifth Arrest

Prosecutors cite a handwritten plan, bomb-making materials and desert testing as evidence and say more charges are likely.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced the arrests of Audrey Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page, Tina Chen-Ting Lai and Dante Anthony-Gaffield, who are suspected of planning bomb attacks in Southern California on New Year’s Eve, in Los Angeles on Dec. 15, 2025. 
FBI Assistant Director in Charge Akil Davis, center, is flanked by, from left to right, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell and First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli while announcing developments in a terrorism investigation during a new conference Dec. 15, 2025, in Los Angeles.
The FBI released a video it says is of people in the desert preparing to test explosives as they announce the arrest of four people suspected of planning bomb attacks in Southern California on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles on Dec. 15, 2025.
Alleged evidence presented by the US Justice Department in the indictment of members of the "Turtle Island Liberation Front."

Overview

  • Audrey Illeene Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page, Dante Gaffield and Tina Lai were charged in federal court with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
  • Agents arrested the four on Dec. 12 in a desert area east of Los Angeles while they were allegedly testing IED components, with aerial surveillance documenting the activity.
  • A complaint says Carroll authored an eight-page plan titled “Operation Midnight Sun” detailing step-by-step IED instructions and listing at least five targets, described as logistics centers, to detonate at midnight on Dec. 31.
  • Officials describe the suspects as a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front; evidence shown includes PVC pipes, precursor chemicals, fuse materials and posters reading slogans such as “Death to ICE.”
  • FBI New Orleans arrested a fifth person linked to the same subgroup in a separate alleged attack plan, and investigators continue to review seized materials and pursue potential collaborators.