DOJ arrests 4 people, accusing them of planning to set off bombs around the Los Angeles area on New Year's Eve

The Justice Department arrested four people in connection with an alleged plot to set off bombs in the Los Angeles area on New Year's Eve, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on X.Bondi said members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, which she described as a "far-left" group, had planned to conduct "a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve."A criminal complaint alleged that the group had acquired “bomb-making materials and [traveled] to a remote location in the Mojave Desert to construct and detonate test explosive devices on December 12, 2025.”

The Justice Department arrested four people in connection with an alleged plot to set off bombs in the Los Angeles area on New Year's Eve, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on X.

Bondi said members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, which she described as a "far-left" group, had planned to conduct "a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve."

A criminal complaint alleged that the group had acquired “bomb-making materials and [traveled] to a remote location in the Mojave Desert to construct and detonate test explosive devices on December 12, 2025.”

FBI agents arrested them “before they completed assembling a functional explosive device,” the filing said.

The suspects face charges of “conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device,” Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California, said at a news conference.