Antifa members indicted in Texas ICE facility riot, attempted murder of officer

Nine members of an Antifa radical were indicted Friday and 7 much were charged successful transportation with the attempted execution of a Texas constabulary serviceman during a July onslaught connected an migration detention facility, the Justice Department said. 

Charged successful the 12-count incidental were suspected North Texas Antifa Cell members Cameron Arnold, Zachary Evetts, Benjamin Song, Savanna Batten, Bradford Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada with aggregate offenses for their roles related to the July 4 onslaught astatine the Prairieland Detention Center successful Alvarado, Texas.

In addition, Nathan Baumann, Joy Gibson, Susan Kent, Rebecca Morgan, Lynette Sharp, and John Thomas are charged with 1 number of providing worldly enactment to terrorists.  A sixteenth defendant, Seth Sikes, was charged successful precocious October with 1 number of providing worldly enactment to terrorists.  

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Several Antifa members allegedly acceptable disconnected fireworks astatine a Texas detention installation during a July 4 attack, authorities said.  (Justice Department)

"Anyone who targets instrumentality enforcement oregon uses unit to beforehand an anarchist docket volition look the afloat value of the national government," FBI Director Kash Patel said successful an exclusive connection to Fox News Digital. "These are home terrorists, and nether President Trump’s leadership, we’re uncovering them and bringing them to justice."

The 9 indicted members are charged with rioting with the intent to perpetrate an enactment of violence, providing worldly enactment to terrorists, conspiracy to usage and transportation an explosive, and using and carrying an explosive, attempted execution of officers, discharging a firearm during, and successful narration to, and successful furtherance of a transgression of violence, corruptly concealing a papers oregon grounds and conspiracy to conceal documents.

"This is the archetypal indictment successful the state against a radical of convulsive Antifa compartment members," said Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson.  

The defendants were members of a North Texas Antifa Cell, portion of a larger militant endeavor made up of networks of individuals and tiny groups that telephone for the overthrow of the U.S authorities and instrumentality enforcement.

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The Prairieland Detention Facility successful Alvarado, Texas wherever a constabulary serviceman was changeable successful the cervix and respective ICE officers were changeable astatine July 4, 2025. (KDFW)

"Antifa is simply a violent enactment and today’s blameworthy pleas — for convulsive assaults against instrumentality enforcement — people a turning constituent successful however the Department of Justice is approaching Antifa cases," U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Digital. "At President Trump’s direction, we are prosecuting Antifa similar we prosecute groups specified arsenic Tren de Aragua and MS-13. Expect akin cases to travel arsenic we dismantle Antifa." 

Federal prosecutors said 11 of the suspects rioted and attacked the detention center, which was being utilized to location amerciable immigrants awaiting deportation. 

They were dressed successful "black bloc"— acheronian covering with caput and look coverings that concealed their identities, authorities said. Once astatine the facility, they began shooting disconnected and throwing fireworks astatine the gathering and vandalizing vehicles and a defender shack connected the national property. 

An Alvarado constabulary serviceman responded to the chaos aft correctional officers called 911. When the serviceman issued commands to Baumann, Song allegedly yelled, "get to the rifles!" and past opened occurrence connected the officer, who was struck successful the cervix arsenic the unarmed correctional officers ducked and ran for cover. 

Song, who galore successful the Antifa compartment looked to arsenic the leader, fled the scene, but was captured by instrumentality enforcement connected July 15, prosecutors said. 

The Prairieland Detention Center successful Alvarado, Texas that was attacked successful July by members of Antifa, national prosecutors said.  (Justice Department; KDFW)

Before the attack, the Antifa compartment allegedly acquired implicit 50 firearms successful the Dallas and Fort Worth area, prosecutors said.  

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To conceal their plan, they utilized an encrypted messaging app to coordinate with each different that had auto-delete functions, permanently deleting immoderate Antifa Cell members’ communications.  They besides utilized monikers successful radical chats to fell their identities, and immoderate of the readying chats included lone trusted participants.  

The Antifa members allegedly conducted reconnaissance and discussed what to bring to the riot, including firearms, aesculapian kits, and fireworks.

The 9 defendants who were indicted are scheduled to look successful national tribunal to beryllium arraigned connected Dec. 3.