A plan to attack several Los Angeles-area businesses on New Year\u2019s Eve was detailed, dangerous and already in motion, authorities said.<\/p>\n
But as four people allegedly tied to an anti-government group gathered last week in the Mojave Desert to make and test several test bombs, FBI officials foiled the terror plot. <\/p>\n
\u201c<\/b>They had everything they needed to make an operational bomb at that location,\u201d First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli said at a news conference Monday morning. \u201cWe disrupted this terror plot before buildings were demolished or innocent people were killed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The four people were arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack that Essayli called \u201corganized, sophisticated and extremely violent.\u201d They were all tied to a radical faction of the Turtle Island Liberation Front called Order of the Black Lotus, which FBI Assistant Director in Charge Akil Davis called \u201ca violent homegrown anti-government group.\u201d <\/p>\n
Officials wouldn\u2019t say what buildings or businesses were planned to be targeted but Essayli said they were different \u201clogistics centers\u201d similar to ones that Amazon might have. <\/p>\n
Officials said they believe that everyone involved in the planned attack has been arrested, though the investigation into the plot remains ongoing. <\/p>\n
The four alleged conspirators, Audrey Carroll, Zachary Page, Dante Gaffield and Tina Lai, have been charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device, Essayli said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe subjects arrested envisioned planting backpacks with improvised explosive devices to be detonated at multiple locations in Southern California, targeting U.S. companies,\u201d Davis said. <\/p>\n
The plans the FBI uncovered also included follow-up attacks after the bombings, which included plans to target ICE agents and vehicles with pipe bombs, Essayli said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plan to attack several Los Angeles-area businesses on New Year\u2019s Eve was detailed, dangerous and already in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":449393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[206596,8991,206597,29414,9102,1582,276,206598,206594,206595,1257,2961,13938,224,5337,43387,3546,18416,2549,206599],"class_list":{"0":"post-449392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-anti-government-group","9":"tag-attack","10":"tag-audrey-carroll","11":"tag-bill-essayli","12":"tag-building","13":"tag-ca","14":"tag-california","15":"tag-dante-gaffield","16":"tag-eve-terror-plot","17":"tag-fbi-official","18":"tag-fed","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-location","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-new-year","24":"tag-people","25":"tag-plan","26":"tag-southern-california","27":"tag-unregistered-destructive-device"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115725517895133782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}