Federal authorities arrested a person near Lafayette over the weekend who they accuse of being in an extremist group and planning a New Year’s Eve bombing attack, officials said.
The FBI director, Kash Patel, on social media said the person was part of a “radical subgroup” of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a pro-Palestinian organization. Also on Monday, federal officials announced arrests of four alleged members of the group in Los Angeles who are accused of hatching a separate bombing plot on the West Coast.
The person arrested in Louisiana was “planning a separate violent attack,” Patel said. It is unclear whether that attack was planned for California, Louisiana or elsewhere. Officials have not identified any signs of coordination between the suspects in Louisiana and Los Angeles…