Two members of an Antifa cell which attacked the Prairieland detention center in Texas on July 4 have just been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of domestic terrorism. This is the first case of its kind.
The Justice Department brought its first federal terrorism case in the Trump administration’s crackdown on Antifa Wednesday, alleging that two people connected to the left-wing ideology participated in a coordinated attack on a federal immigration detention facility.
Prosecutors accuse Zachary Evetts and Cameron Arnold, who also goes by the name Autumn Hill, of being members of an “Antifa Cell” that used vandalism and fireworks to draw law enforcement officers out of an immigration detention facility near Fort Worth, Texas, and into the sights of two shooters positioned in a line of trees across the street.
Here are the mugshots of the two indicted yesterday.
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.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 16, 2025
Cameron Arnold (“Autumn Hill”), a Trantifa, and Zachary Evetts were indicted with providing… https://t.co/s01OlC1I1J pic.twitter.com/eR7x5ZEjLu
If you've forgotten the details of this attack amid the rash of left-wing shootings lately, here's briefly what happened.
Late into the night of July 4, a group of roughly a dozen individuals began shooting fireworks and spray-painting cars and structures at the detention facility, prosecutors say. Around the same time two correctional officers at the facility began to approach the group, a local police officer arrived responding to 9-11 calls about the incident, court filings say.
Shortly after the officer got out of his vehicle, one of the members of the group opened fire from a line of trees across the street, shooting him in the neck, prosecutors say. The officer survived the wound.
Another member of the group began to fire at the officers and, after shooting 20 to 30 rounds, the group dispersed and fled the scene, court filings say.
This was a planned ambush. The seven-count indictment goes into more detail about the planning which took place over an encrypted chat app. One member of the group wrote, "I'm done with peaceful protests" and also "Blue lives don't matter."
The plotters discussed logistics and the locations of security cameras. They had a map which indicated nearby police stations. Some members of the group gathered at a house prior to the attack. After the attack, authorities discovered dozens of guns connected to the group.
Authorities said more than 50 weapons were seized in connection with the group. Additional firearms were recovered days later when Song was found hiding in a Dallas apartment.
Song faces charges of engaging in organized criminal activity, aggravated assault on a public servant, and aiding in the commission of terrorism, according to the Johnson County Sheriff's Office.
FBI testimony also highlighted "zines" anarchist publications discovered in searches, and said the group communicated through an encrypted platform that wipes data.
All of the mainstream stories about this argue that Antifa is not a group and that therefore it will be difficult to prosecute people for association with them. This is the same argument that lawyers for all of the accused used when they were facing charges.
Each defense attorney argued that anti-government beliefs and antifa thinking are not grounds for a crime.
But the NY Times notes that the indictment adopts a more specific description of Antifa and also suggests the new definition might indicate a much larger investigation by the FBI.
The indictment defined antifa somewhat more precisely, calling it a “militant enterprise made up of networks of individuals and small groups, primarily ascribing to a revolutionary anarchist or autonomous Marxist ideology.” The enterprise, the indictment added, explicitly calls for “the overthrow of the United States government, law enforcement authorities and the system of law.”
The use of the term “enterprise” suggested that the F.B.I. might have opened a powerful and sweeping form of inquiry into antifa known as an enterprise investigation, said Thomas E. Brzozowski, the former counsel for domestic terrorism in the Justice Department’s national security division. Enterprise investigations allow the federal authorities to deeply scrutinize the structure, finances, membership and goals of targeted groups or organizations.
Separately, Glenn Beck claimed this week that he was visited by the FBI last weekend. He said they were very "deadass serious" about investigating the groups connected to and funding Antifa activities. This seems to jibe pretty well the the speculation that there's a much larger "Enterprise" investigation taking place.
The FBI showed up to my house to discuss my TV show exposing Antifa's network. If you are a member of Antifa or providing material or financial support for Antifa, I might be a little concerned because the FBI is DEADASS serious about investigating you. pic.twitter.com/FuXA207wdB
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) October 13, 2025
We'll have to wait and see where this goes but it sure would be interesting to find out who has been funding the nightly riots in Portland and the other activities Antifa has been up to for the past few years. That might also explain why professor Mark Bray, aka Dr. Antifa, recently fled the country.
