Overview
- Tina Lai entered a not guilty plea in Los Angeles federal court to material-support and unregistered-firearms charges, with a tentative trial date set for February.
- Co-defendants Audrey Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page, and Dante Gaffield face the same two counts, and Carroll and Page also face a weapon-of-mass-destruction conspiracy charge.
- Carroll and Page are scheduled for arraignment on Monday, according to court officials.
- Prosecutors say the plot called for backpacks with explosive devices to detonate simultaneously at multiple “Amazon-type” logistics centers on New Year’s Eve.
- Agents arrested the four on Dec. 12 in the Mojave Desert after surveillance captured bomb testing preparations and seized potassium nitrate, sulfur, charcoal, and pipes, with the FBI intervening before any functional device was completed; potential sentences range up to 25 years for Lai and Gaffield and up to life for Carroll and Page.