The fifth particular person arrested over an alleged New 12 months’s Eve bombing plot by a far-left terrorist group is a transgender Marine veteran who needed to “recreate Waco” on ICE brokers, in line with a prison grievance unsealed Tuesday.
Micah James Legnon, 29, was arrested in Louisiana on Saturday after being tied to chats with suspected members of the far-left terrorist group Turtle Island Liberation Entrance as they allegedly plotted to plant pipe bombs on companies after which ICE brokers, in line with the FBI investigation.
Legnon — who glided by “Kateri TheWitch” and “DarkWitch She/Her” in discussion groups — seemed to be planning an assault in New Orleans to coincide with others attacking southern California, the grievance alleged.
Legnon shared photos of assault rifles and physique armor — and federal brokers “discovered sniper coaching manuals, SWAT coaching manuals, assault rifles, and a number of rounds of ammunition” in a raid on the suspect’s house in New Iberia, the grievance stated.
Legnon additionally posted a narrative on Fb on Dec. 4 that known as Border Patrol brokers “masked f–ks,” the grievance alleged.
“S–t time to recreate Waco tx with these f–kers. F–okay ice,” the extremist wrote, which the FBI took as a menace to recreate the 1993 bloodbath by David Koresh’s Davidians that ended with 4 brokers and greater than 70 civilians killed, the grievance famous.
Legnon is in custody on the Iberia Parish Jail on fees of creating threats over interstate commerce.
The grievance famous that the suspect “was beforehand a member of the Marines with coaching in fight” who now makes use of she/her pronouns.
Legnon can be a former cop who’s now a recognized so-called trantifa extremist, sources confirmed to The Submit.
Social media posts belonging to Legnon are riddled with requires the loss of life of these deemed as “fascists,” in line with antifa professional Andy Ngo, who first reported the most recent arrest.
TILF, a little-known extremist group, is “pro-Palestine, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government” and has been secretly fundraising to convey a few “revolutionary change in authorities,” FBI brokers wrote within the affidavit for Legnon’s alleged co-conspirators.
“Furthermore, TILF advocates that liberalism and peaceable protest would be the downfall of those that consider it’s sufficient, and that ‘direct motion is the one approach,” prosecutors wrote.
4 members of the group — Audrey Carroll, 30, Zachary Web page, 32, Dante Garfield, 24, and Tina Lai, 41 — have been arrested in Los Angeles after they have been filmed within the Mojave Desert testing out their selfmade explosives, the FBI introduced Monday.
Web page can be trans and has requested to be despatched to a ladies’s jail.
The 4, together with Legnon, have been reportedly members of a Sign chat known as “Order of the Black Lotus” — a TILF splinter group.
The alleged New 12 months’s Eve plot, dubbed “Operation Midnight Solar,” consisted of planting backpacks full of bombs at two corporations in Los Angeles, in line with a handwritten plan found by investigators.
Whereas executing search warrants in California investigators additionally found indicators declaring “Demise to America,” “Demise to ICE” and “Lengthy stay Turtle Island and Palestine,” officers introduced Monday.
The extremist group is known as after “Turtle Island,” an Indigenous time period, notably among the many Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee, for the continent of North America.
