The FBI arrested five members of a far-left, pro-Palestinian extremist group on Friday in connection with an alleged plot to carry out coordinated bombings in and around Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.

The “credible, imminent terrorist threat” to five unidentified companies’ logistics centers in Los Angeles came from radical members of an offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), FBI Director Kash Patel and other law enforcement officials revealed Monday.

Four of the suspects were collared in Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert, where they were captured on video attempting to detonate improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Los Angeles first assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli told reporters at a news conference.
The four — Audrey Ilene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41 — have been charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device. A fifth unidentified suspect was arrested in New Orleans while planning a separate attack.

All four California suspects will make an initial appearance in Los Angeles federal court Monday. The arrests were first reported by Fox News.

“We intend to file additional charges in the coming weeks as we finish reviewing the evidence,” Essayli said. “The defendants are all radical anti-government members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, which, according to their own social media, is an anti-capitalist, anti-gun movement movement that calls for their associates to rise up and fight back against capitalism.”

Search warrants were executed nationwide in connection with the domestic terror probe, via a “complex and coordinated” effort singling out the accused terrorists’ properties.

“This investigation crossed the entire country,” FBI Los Angeles Field Office assistant director in charge Akil Davis confirmed at Monday’s press conference.

The TILF’s Los Angeles chapter has posted photos on its Instagram of its members waving Palestinian flags and brandishing a “Death to ICE!!!” sign.

“Turtle Island” is an indigenous term for the continent of North America that has been appropriated by Black Lives Matter and other left-wing activist groups.

TILF Los Angeles has called the US government an “illegal American empire” and demanded a “Free Palestine,” “Free Hawaii” and “Free Puerto Rico” in other Instagram posts.

“Freeing the world from American imperialism is the only way to a safe and peaceful future,” the group has declared.

Essayli credited President Trump’s recent executive order targeting domestic terror organizations like Antifa with having helped the feds begin the investigation that ultimately foiled the attack.

“As the president made clear, recent attacks across the country have highlighted the grave threats posed by these far left domestic terror groups,” Essayli said Monday.

“These threats are sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity and direct policy outcomes, and prevent the proper functioning of a democratic society.”

“After an intense investigation, the Department of Justice, working with our @FBI, prevented what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot in the Central District of California (Orange County and Los Angeles),” Attorney General Pam Bondi also posted Monday on X.

“The Turtle Island Liberation Front — a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group — was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve,” Bondi said. “The group also planned to target ICE agents and vehicles.”

“This was an incredible effort by our US Attorneys’ Offices and the @FBI to ensure Americans can live in peace. We will continue to pursue these terror groups and bring them to justice,” she added.