Feds Throw Book at 10 North Texas Antifa Members Charged in Plot to ‘Ambush’ ICE Agents

The Feds have lowered the boom on 10 North Texas Antifa terror cell members who have now been charged with shooting an Alvarado police officer in the neck outside the ICE Prairieland Detention Center on July 4^th.

Antifa members arrested in Texas

On Monday, the Justice Department named names and issued photos of the suspects. The domestic terrorists were all wearing black during the incident and initially shot fireworks at the officers to draw them in for the ambush.

The Antifa members are Cameron Arnold (also known as Autumn Hill), Savannah Batten, Nathan Baumann, Zachary Evetts, Joy Gibson, Bradford Morris (also known as Meagan Morris), Maricela Rueda, Seth Sikes, Elizabeth Soto, and Ines Soto, according to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.

Each of them has been charged with three counts of attempted murder of a federal officer and three counts of discharging a firearm during, in relation to, and in furtherance of a violent crime, according to Fox News.

“On Independence Day, a group of about 15 rioters violently attacked the ICE Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas – and shot at a local police officer,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that was given to Fox News Digital. “The officer sustained an injury to his neck and was transported to a nearby hospital. Thankfully, he has since been discharged and is expected to make a full recovery.”

A well-planned attack

More from Fox News:

Approximately 10 minutes after convening at the ICE facility, one or two individuals broke off from the main group and began to spray graffiti on vehicles and a guard structure in the parking lot, authorities said. Photos included in the criminal complaint, filed in the Northern District of Texas, show vehicles tagged with the messages “ICE pig” and “F— you pigs.” Correction officers dialed 911 and an Alvarado police officer responded to the scene. 

Immediately after the officer got out of his vehicle, one defendant positioned in nearby woods allegedly shot the officer in the neck, according to the complaint. Another assailant, wearing a green mask and standing across the street, then allegedly fired 20 to 30 rounds at unarmed correctional officers who had stepped outside the facility.

“The shooting was captured by both CCTV and the APD officer’s body-worn camera,” the complaint says.

The FBI recovered AR-style rifles from the scene. The group fled from the detention center separately – some on foot, some in vehicles – and were later stopped by other law enforcement officers. The complaint notes that the defendants were “dressed in black, military-style clothing,” some were wearing body armor, some were armed, and some had two-way radios.

This was a well-planned operation that obviously intended to kill police officers and ICE agents.

“It was a planned ambush with the intent to kill ICE corrections officers,” acting U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson contended at a press conference. “Make no mistake. This was not a so-called peaceful protest.”

The ten attackers each face a maximum sentence of life in prison, while an eleventh “co-conspirator” who allegedly tried to destroy evidence of the plot faces up to ten years in prison, Larson noted.

Prosecutors claim twelve sets of body armor were found when the assailants’ vehicles were searched, on their persons, and in the surrounding area around the detention facility. Spray paint, magazines containing ammunition, and flyers that raged “FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!” and “FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS” were also found by police.

A flag was recovered that proclaimed, “RESIST FASCISM – FIGHT OLIGARCHY.” Those are words that come straight out of the mouths of socialist Bernie Sanders and Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

One assailant, Gibson, had two cell phones in a backpack that were protected inside a “Faraday bag,” which is used to block phone signals and “commonly used by criminal actors to try to prevent law enforcement from tracking their location,” prosecutors asserted. 

Another attacker, Rueda, called an 11^th suspect, Daniel Rolando Sanchez, who was charged in a separate complaint, two days following the attack, and expressed concern that the police would conduct a search warrant on Rueda’s home in Fort Worth, according to Fox News. 

“Whatever you need to do, move whatever you need to move at the house,” Rueda advised Sanchez.

Fox News also reported:

The FBI conducted surveillance on another address in Garland, Texas, believed to be Sanchez’s residence and observed Sanchez carrying multiple packages to his truck. Agents followed Sanchez to an apartment in Denton. He carried a box inside which contained “anti-government propaganda,” including fliers stating “Organising for Attack! Insurrectionary Anarchy,” according to the complaint. 

Domestic terrorism celebrated by the Left

The mugshots released by authorities display typical left-wing extremists. Each looks haggard and mentally unstable. Just the kind of foot soldiers the Left is looking to deploy to create violent, murderous chaos over President Trump’s immigration policies.

As this cell is prosecuted, it should be noted that leftists are celebrating their act of attempted murder. There will surely be more incidents like this one – this fat lady hasn’t even begun to sing yet.

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