FBI Agents Receive Praise from Patel Amid Rising Arrest Numbers

However, it’s also clear from other law‑enforcement developments — from vigorous immigration enforcement in Chicago to debates over prosecution policies — that public safety strategies are increasingly multi‑layered and sometimes controversial.

A Foiled Bomb Plot: Extremism, Extremist Groups, and New Year’s Eve Targeting
While the Illinois operation made headlines and reassured many, another law‑enforcement effort unfolded more quietly but with much higher stakes.

Federal counterterrorism investigators disrupted an alleged extremist plot aimed at setting off improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Southern California on New Year’s Eve.

What Federal Prosecutors Announced
On December 15, 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California and the Department of Justice issued a press release detailing arrests of four individuals allegedly associated with a far‑left, anti‑government group called the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF).

According to the criminal complaint:

The defendants — identified as Audrey Illeene Carroll (30), Zachary Aaron Page (32), Dante Gaffield (24) and Tina Lai (41) — were arrested in the Mojave Desert on December 12 as they allegedly prepared to construct explosive devices.

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