A federal grand jury in the Central District of California returned a six-count indictment on Tuesday against four far-left radicals accused of planning a series of coordinated bomb attacks across Southern California on New Year’s Eve.
The suspects—Michael Carroll, 32, of Los Angeles; Elena Vasquez, 28, of Orange County; Jamal Ahmed, 30, of San Bernardino; and Sofia Ramirez, 29, of Riverside—were apprehended on December 12, 2025, in the Mojave Desert. Authorities described their arrest as a disruption of a rehearsal for the planned attacks. The arrests followed a lengthy investigation led by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, which relied on both surveillance and an informant embedded within the group.
According to prosecutors, the four individuals conspired to detonate improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at five or more business locations across Los Angeles and Orange counties at midnight on December 31, 2025. Law enforcement reports indicate the targets included logistics centers and U.S. companies tied to immigration enforcement and corporate operations—locations chosen for their symbolic significance to the extremists’ ideology.
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