Two suspects in a far-left “anti-capitalist, anti-government” extremist group have been charged with plotting to detonate weapons of mass destruction in and round Los Angeles in a bombshell grand jury indictment.
Their alleged assault was designed to “utterly pulverize” tech corporations and logistics corporations, prosecutors introduced Tuesday.
A federal grand jury slapped 4 members of the novel “Turtle Island Liberation Entrance” with terrorism costs, together with conspiracy to make use of a weapon of mass destruction, offering materials help to terrorists and possession of unregistered firearms.
Zachary Aaron Web page, a 32-year-old trans lady, and Audrey Illeene Carroll, a 30-year-old who goes by the nickname “Black Moon,” have been each charged with one depend of conspiracy to make use of a weapon of mass destruction.
All 4 defendants — Web page, Caroll and Dante James Anthony-Gaffield, 24, and Tina Lai, 41 — are being held with out bond. Web page was denied a request to switch to a ladies’s jail in a listening to final week. Micah James Legnon, a 29-year-old transgender Marine vet, was additionally arrested in Louisiana in reference to the alleged plot.
The Turtle Island Liberation Entrance is an anti-capitalist and anti-government group, based on prosecutors. The 4 defendants are also members of what Carroll known as a “radical” TILF faction that communicated through an encrypted messaging group known as “Order of the Black Lotus.”
