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.

Federal officials have arrested four people accused of plotting coordinated bomb attacks in Southern California on New Year’s Eve. 

The defendants — Audrey Illeene Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page, Dante Gaffield and Tina Lai — were taken into custody Friday, near Lucerne Valley in San Bernardino County, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court. The four were apprehended as they were allegedly constructing test bombs in a remote area of the Mojave Desert.

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Prosecutors allege that the group of four, whom investigators identify as members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, or TILF, conspired to build and detonate multiple improvised explosive devices on Dec. 31. The affidavit also alleges that during a Dec. 7 meeting, Carroll and Page discussed plans for future attacks after New Year’s Eve, including targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and vehicles in January or February.

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