DOJ indicts 2 militants on Antifa-related terrorism charges over July 4 attack on Texas ICE facility

Two Antifa extremists arrested in connection with a July 4 attack on an ICE facility in Texas have become the first to be hit with Antifa-related terrorism charges. 

On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted Cameron Arnold, also known as Autumn Hill, and Zachary Evetts with providing material support for terrorism, and multiple counts of attempting to murder federal and local officers and discharging firearms during the attempted murders. 

The indictment, unsealed on Thursday, alleges that a North Texas Antifa Cell, after extensive planning in the days prior, attacked the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas late on July 4, 2025. At least 11 people dressed in black began shooting fireworks at the facility and vandalizing vehicles and a guard shed, per the indictment. 

When police arrived at the scene, one alleged coconspirator allegedly yelled "get to the rifles" and opened fire. One Alvarado police officer was shot in the neck. The group fled after the person’s rifle jammed. 

Evetts and Arnold, who were arrested the next day, are alleged to have "conspired and agreed with each other and other persons known and unknown, to provide and attempt to provide material support and resources … and to conceal and disguise the nature of material support and resources, including property, services, training, communications equipment, weapons, explosives, personnel (including themselves) and transportation..."

They are also accused of attempting to kill multiple officers and knowingly discharging a firearm in relation to the attempted murder charges. 

FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement to Fox News, "For the first time ever, the FBI has arrested anarchist violent extremists and charged these Antifa-aligned individuals with material support to terrorism. This was a planned and coordinated terrorist attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where armed extremists tried to murder U.S. officers on July 4th."

"We are executing under President Trump's new authorities at record speed. To date, the FBI has made over 20 arrests tied to this case and related Antifa networks. No one gets to harm law enforcement. Not on our watch," Patel added.

This comes after Trump in September signed an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. The order characterizes Antifa as a “militarist, anarchist enterprise” intent on overthrowing the US government and law enforcement. 

10 people were charged in the days following the attack with three counts of attempted murder of federal agents and three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. 

Those charged at the time were identified as Arnold, of Dallas; Savanna Batten, of Fort Worth; Nathan Baumann, of College Station; Evetts, of Waxahachie; Joy Gibson, of Dallas; Bradford Morris, aka Meagan Morris, of Dallas; Maricela Rueda, of Fort Worth; Seth Sikes, of Kennedale; Elizabeth Soto, of Fort Worth; and Ines Soto, of Fort Worth.