4 charged with plotting New Year's Eve attacks in Southern California, prosecutors say

LOS ANGELES -- Federal authorities connected Monday announced the arrests of 4 alleged members of an extremist radical who are suspected of readying coordinated bombing attacks connected New Year's Eve crossed Southern California.

The suspects were arrested past week successful Lucerne Valley, a godforsaken metropolis eastbound of Los Angeles, wherever they were suspected of preparing to trial improvised explosive devices up of the planned bombings, according to the national transgression ailment filed Saturday. They are members of an offshoot of a pro-Palestinian radical dubbed the Turtle Island Liberation Front, the ailment said.

They each look charges including conspiracy and possession of a destructive device, tribunal documents show.

The radical is alleged to person been plotting to acceptable disconnected a bid of bombings astatine aggregate targets successful California opening connected New Year's Eve and besides planned to people Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and vehicles Attorney General Pam Bondi said connected societal media.

Evidence photos included successful the tribunal documents amusement a godforsaken campsite with what investigators said were bomb-making materials strewn crossed integrative folding tables.

The suspects "all brought bomb-making components to the campsite, including assorted sizes of PVC pipes, suspected potassium nitrate, charcoal, charcoal powder, sulfur powder, and worldly to beryllium utilized arsenic fuses, among others," the ailment states.

Federal authorities planned a Monday greeting quality league to sermon the arrests.