On Thursday afternoon, FBI Director Kash Patel provided an update on arrests previously made in connection with the July 4 domestic terror attack at the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, during which a police officer was shot in the neck.
“First time ever: the FBI arrested Antifa-aligned anarchist violent extremists and terrorism charges have been brought for the July 4 Prairieland ICE attack in Texas,” Patel noted on X. “Under President Trump’s new authorities, we’ve made 20+ arrests. No one gets to harm law enforcement. Not on my watch.”
First time ever: the FBI arrested Antifa-aligned anarchist violent extremists and terrorism charges have been brought for the July 4 Prairieland ICE attack in Texas.
Under President Trump’s new authorities we’ve made 20+ arrests.
No one gets to harm law enforcement. Not on my… pic.twitter.com/GlFZ6HC6gx
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 16, 2025
The Justice Dept. unsealed the indictment on Thursday as well. It says, in part:
The two men who were indicted, Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts, were previously charged in connection with the alleged ambush of federal agents at the ICE facility and attempting to kill two correctional officers and an Alvarado police officer, but the grand jury indictment charges both with an additional count of providing material support to terrorists.
According to Patel, “This was a planned and coordinated terrorist attack… where armed extremists tried to murder U.S. officers.” Antifa expert and independent journalist Andy Ngo states that Cameron Arnold (pictured below) is a member of the violent “Trantifa” cell:
Two members of a North Texas Antifa cell have been federally indicted with federal terrorism charges over an ambush shooting on an ICE facility where an officer was shot in the neck.
Cameron Arnold (“Autumn Hill”), a Trantifa, and Zachary Evetts were indicted with providing… https://t.co/s01OlC1I1J pic.twitter.com/eR7x5ZEjLu
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 16, 2025
The chilling details of the case were contained in the indictment:
The indictment claims the group that Arnold and Evetts were a part of did extensive preplanning before the incident, and that Arnold trained others on firearm use and close-quarters combat.
The group was heavily armed with over 50 firearms that were purchased in Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Dallas and elsewhere, according to the indictment. The document also noted that Arnold allegedly built numerous AR-platform rifles, some of which he distributed to his co-defendants, and at least one of which featured a binary trigger, allowing the gun to shoot at a higher rate by causing two bullets to fire with each trigger cycle.
Arnold, Evetts and others also used an encrypted messaging app to coordinate their moves, according to the DOJ. The investigation found that one member of the group wrote “I’m done with peaceful protests” and “Blue lives don’t matter” as part of those conversations.
In other words, investigators believe the suspects were preparing to carry out a mass-casualty attack.
A total of 15 individuals have been arrested in connection with the case. Mugshots of 10 suspects were released shortly after their arrests — and their appearances were largely consistent with expectations given the nature of the alleged plot.
These are the 10 alleged members of a north Texas Antifa terror cell accused of carrying out the attempted murder of federal officers at a shooting terrorist attack on an ICE facility on the Fourth of July in Alvarado, Texas.
One local police officer was shot in the neck, and… pic.twitter.com/fRtYldx661
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 8, 2025
Let’s hope the Trump administration throws the book at these lunatics and makes an example of each one of them.
