FBI Foils NYE Terror Plot in LA

Carroll and Page led the group and convened a private Signal chat where they used codenames, with Carroll identified as “Asiginaak,” Page identified as “Ash Kerrigan” or “cthulu’s daughter,” Gaffield as “Nomad” and Lai as “Kickwhere.”

The sophisticated criminal scheme involved each participant wearing so-called “BlacBloc” clothing, using burner phones, wearing gloves, concealing their hair, paying for black powder pipe bomb materials in cash and even “placing a small pebble in a shoe to alter natural gait to obfuscate their identification,” the complaint stated.

The radicals had also planned to target “property and facilities operated by two separate companies that are used or engaged in activities affecting interstate and foreign commerce.”

At a Dec. 7 meeting, Page suggested it was “100,000[%]” likely that the FBI would be tracking them and suggested all members take appropriate precautions, while Carroll shared she had purchased 13 PVC pipes and two five-pound bags of “potassium nitrate on Amazon using a burner account” for the bombs.

Carroll and Page also discussed follow-up attacks — including plans to target ICE agents and vehicles with pipe bombs in January or February 2026, according to Essayli and the complaint, which Carroll said “would take some of them out and scare the rest.”

In a separate Signal exchange with the FBI’s source, Carroll revealed she “kind of had this notebook where I wrote down multiple plans that never happened or got delayed / so it’s like / my terrorist diary / lmaooooo / I have to get rid of that.”

Search warrants were executed nationwide in connection with the domestic terror probe, via a “complex and coordinated” effort singling out the accused terrorists’ properties.

Posters were discovered at Page’s residentce stating “Death to America, Long Live Turtle Island and Palestine” and “Death to ICE, Turtle Island Liberation Front,” Essayli said.

The TILF’s Los Angeles chapter has posted photos on its Instagram of its members waving Palestinian flags and brandishing a “Death to ICE!!!” sign — and proclaimed that it “is dedicated to ‘Liberation through decolonization and tribal sovereignty,’” the criminal complaint shows.

“Turtle Island” is an indigenous term for the continent of North America that has been appropriated by Black Lives Matter and other left-wing activist groups.

The FBI affidavit said that “content on the account references that TILF calls for liberation of their lands and people, and decolonization and tribal sovereignty.”

“TILF also calls for the working class to rise up and fight back against capitalism,” the affidavit noted. “Moreover, TILF advocates that liberalism and peaceful protest will be the downfall of those who believe it is enough, and that ‘direct action is the only way.’”