FBI Thwarts New Year's Eve Bomb Plot: Four Anti-Government Extremists Arrested in California

Dec 16, 2025 10:41 am CST

Federal authorities have arrested four members of an anti-capitalist extremist group for planning coordinated bomb attacks on multiple logistics centers in Southern California on New Year's Eve. The suspects, apprehended during a desert rehearsal, had acquired materials to build pipe bombs designed to detonate simultaneously at midnight. The FBI intervention prevented what could have been a major domestic terrorism incident.