{"id":914510,"date":"2026-07-05T16:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/914510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:55:47","slug":"final-7-antifa-cell-members-involved-in-2025-alvarado-ice-center-attack-sentenced-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/914510\/","title":{"rendered":"Final 7 Antifa cell members involved in 2025 Alvarado ICE center attack sentenced to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bzbpwz2bxmnf01cl.jpg\" alt=\"'Ring leader' of Alvarado ICE attack sentenced to 100 years\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bzbpwz2bxmnf01cl.jpg\" alt=\"'Ring leader' of Alvarado ICE attack sentenced to 100 years\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/video\/fmc-fmutein2jc41ww8m\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Ring leader&#8217; of Alvarado ICE attack sentenced to 100 years<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">The ring leader and several others involved in the Alvarado ICE attack were sentenced Tuesday almost a year after the incident at the North Texas Detention Center. FOX 4&#8217;s Lori Brown is outside the Johnson County Courthouse with an update.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; The final seven co-defendants involved in a coordinated, midnight domestic terrorist ambush at a North Texas immigration facility last summer have been sentenced to prison.<\/p>\n<p>   Sentenced to Prison <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Six of the seven co-defendants who appeared in court on Wednesday had pleaded guilty to charges related to the shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado last July 4. They were each sentenced to between two and 15 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Joy Gibson &#8211; 15 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Rebecca Morgan &#8211; 15 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Lynette Sharp &#8211; 9 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">John Thomas &#8211; 9 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Seth Sikes &#8211; 6 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Nathan Baumann &#8211; 22 months<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The seventh co-defendant, Ines Soto, was sentenced to 50 years after being convicted of providing material support to terrorists, as well as on riot and explosives charges.<\/p>\n<p> Prairieland ICE Attack <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Wednesday&#8217;s proceedings took place nearly one year after members of a North Texas Antifa cell launched an assault on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, approximately 40 miles southwest of Dallas, on July 4, 2025. The attack left an Alvarado police officer seriously injured and caused extensive structural damage to the complex.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/thumbnail_image012.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Surveillance stills of fireworks used in Alvarado ICE facility attack <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The hearings followed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/federal-judges-sentence-eight-north-texas-antifa-operatives-texas-ice-facility-ambush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wave of massive prison sentences<\/a> handed down last week by U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O&#8217;Connor, who collectively meted out nearly five centuries of prison time to eight primary members of the cell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Among them was the group&#8217;s ringleader, 25-year-old Benjamin Hanil Song, who received a 100-year sentence following his conviction for domestic terrorism offenses and the attempted murder of the police officer, who was shot in the neck.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2025-07-09-182650.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Benjamin Hanil Song (Source: FBI) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Federal prosecutors proved during the landmark trial that the group meticulously planned the Independence Day attack, accumulating more than 50 firearms, utilizing &#8220;black bloc&#8221; tactical gear, and throwing explosives at the facility while forcing unarmed correctional officers to scramble for cover.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Continued Coverage<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story comes from the Associated Press and past<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/johnson-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/terrorism\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terrorism<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/immigration\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ring leader&#8217; of Alvarado ICE attack sentenced to 100 years The ring leader and several others involved in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":914511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,409,33121,50,7375,5343,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-914510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-immigration","tag-johnson-county","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-terrorism","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116868425355439611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914510","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=914510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}