00:00Over the weekend, my office, along with the FBI, arrested members of a far-left anti-government domestic terror cell who self-identify as the Turtle Island Liberation Front.
00:19The individuals were arrested on Friday, December 12th, when the group attempted to construct and detonate IEDs out in the desert.
00:27The charges we are announcing today stem from the defendants and their co-conspirators' detailed, coordinated plot to bomb multiple U.S. companies on New Year's Eve.
00:39Thankfully, that plot has now been foiled thanks to the hard work of the FBI and the Department of Justice.
00:46The four defendants are Audrey Carroll, 30 years old.
00:50The pictures, I think we have them somewhere.
00:53We'll put them up here.
00:53Audrey Carroll, 30 years old, Zachary Aaron Page, 32, Dante Gaffield, 24, and Tina Leigh, 41, each from the Los Angeles area.
01:04Each is charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device in violation of Title 26, United States Code Section 5861D.
01:13We intend to file additional charges in the coming weeks as we finish reviewing the evidence.
01:21The defendants are all radical anti-government members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front,
01:27which, according to their own social media, is an anti-capitalist, anti-government movement
01:32that calls for their associates to rise up and fight back against capitalism.
01:38One of the leaders of the organization, defendant Audrey Carroll, helped organize an even more radical faction of the group called the Order of the Black Lotus.
01:48Each of the defendants charged today was also a member of the Order of the Black Lotus.
01:52In November 2025, defendant Carroll created a detailed bombing plot to use explosive devices to attack five or more locations across Southern California on this upcoming New Year's Eve.
02:07Carroll and her co-defendant, Zachary Page, led the effort to obtain and build the bombs and to recruit others to join in their plot.
02:16Carroll's bomb plot was explicit. It included a step-by-step instructions to build IEDs or improvised explosive devices
02:25and listed multiple targets across Orange County and Los Angeles.
02:30Carroll also made clear her desires. She said, quote,
02:33What we are doing will be considered a terrorist act.
02:36Carroll and Page also discussed plans for follow-up attacks after their bombings,
02:41which included plans to target ICE agents and vehicles with pipe bombs.
02:47Last Friday, December 12th, the defendants took a significant step to carry out their plans.
02:53They traveled to the remote campsite, which you're going to see some video of, in the desert,
02:57and they began unloading their bomb-making materials to assemble and test the bombs.
03:01They had everything they needed to make an operational bomb at that location,
03:06and they were subsequently arrested by the FBI before they could build a functional explosive device.
03:13Shortly after the defendants were taken into custody, the FBI executed multiple search warrants,
03:19including at the defendant's Southern California residence and other locations throughout the country.
03:25I'll highlight some of the items found during those searches over the weekend.
03:29For example, in Carroll's residence, law enforcement found multiple posters and materials
03:33associated with Turtle Island Liberation Front, including posters stating, quote,
03:38Death to America, Long Live Turtle Island and Palestine, and, quote,
03:43Death to ICE, Turtle Island Liberation Front.
03:47In Page's residence, law enforcement found a copy of the detailed bomb attack plan.
03:52The four defendants arrested will make their initial appearance this afternoon
03:56at the federal court in downtown Los Angeles.
04:00They are each considered innocent until proven guilty.
04:04The subject arrested envisioned planting backpacks with improvised explosive devices
04:09to be detonated at multiple locations in Southern California, targeting U.S. companies.
04:16These bombs were to blow up at the same time on midnight this New Year's Eve.
04:21The plan stated that the IEDs would be complex pipe bombs.
04:25It included instructions on how to manufacture the bombs
04:28and contained guidance on how to avoid leaving evidence behind that could be traced back to them.
04:34Our investigation uncovered evidence in that the group would test the explosives in the desert.
04:40In recent days, the alleged co-conspirators discussed plans to travel to the desert on the 12th
04:46to detonate the explosives.
04:47Knowingless, the FBI's JTTF and the FBI Los Angeles Field Office
04:53staged multiple SWAT teams, special agent bomb technicians, our evidence response team,
05:00along with the FBI's elite hostage rescue team in the desert
05:04to disrupt this plan before any harm could occur.
05:07They had precursor chemicals there, and they were going to create these bombs in the desert.
05:17What they are starting to do is put their chemicals and wares and the components out on the table there.
05:25Yeah, we're not naming the victim companies, but I'll generally describe them as logistic centers.
05:29You can think of, like, Amazon-type logistic centers, but we're not naming the specific companies at this time.
05:39That's Paige.
05:40Zachary Aaron Page, 32.
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