The fifth individual 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 response to 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 response to 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 residence in New Iberia, the grievance mentioned.
Legnon additionally posted a narrative on Fb on Dec. 4 that referred to 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 risk 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 identified 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 response to antifa skilled Andy Ngo, who first reported the newest arrest.
TILF, a little-known extremist group, is “pro-Palestine, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government” and has been secretly fundraising to deliver 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 imagine it’s sufficient, and that ‘direct motion is the one manner,” prosecutors wrote.
4 members of the group — Audrey Carroll, 30, Zachary Web page, 32, Dante Garfield, 24, and Tina Lai, 41 — had been arrested in Los Angeles after they had 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, had been reportedly members of a Sign chat referred to 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 filled with bombs at two corporations in Los Angeles, in response to a handwritten plan found by investigators.
Whereas executing search warrants in California investigators additionally found indicators declaring “Dying to America,” “Dying to ICE” and “Lengthy reside Turtle Island and Palestine,” officers introduced Monday.
The extremist group is called after “Turtle Island,” an Indigenous time period, notably among the many Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee, for the continent of North America.
