The fifth person arrested over an alleged New Year’s Eve bombing plot by a far-left terrorist group is a transgender Marine veteran who wanted to “recreate Waco” on ICE agents, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.
Micah James Legnon, 29, was arrested in Louisiana on Saturday after being tied to chats with suspected members of the far-left terrorist group Turtle Island Liberation Front as they allegedly plotted to plant pipe bombs on businesses and then ICE agents, according to the FBI investigation.
Legnon — who went by “Kateri TheWitch” and “DarkWitch She/Her” in chat groups — appeared to be planning an attack in New Orleans to coincide with others attacking southern California, the complaint alleged.
Legnon shared pictures of assault rifles and body armor — and federal agents “found sniper training manuals, SWAT training manuals, assault rifles, and multiple rounds of ammunition” in a raid on the suspect’s home in New Iberia, the complaint said.
Legnon also posted a story on Facebook on Dec. 4 that called Border Patrol agents “masked f–ks,” the complaint alleged.
“S–t time to recreate Waco tx with these f–kers. F–k ice,” the extremist wrote, which the FBI took as a threat to recreate the 1993 massacre by David Koresh’s Davidians that ended with four agents and more than 70 civilians killed, the complaint noted.
Legnon is in custody at the Iberia Parish Jail on charges of making threats over interstate commerce.
The complaint noted that the suspect “was previously a member of the Marines with training in combat” who now uses she/her pronouns.
Legnon is also a former cop who is now a known so-called trantifa extremist, sources confirmed to The Post.
Social media posts belonging to Legnon are riddled with calls for the death of those deemed as “fascists,” according to antifa expert Andy Ngo, who first reported the latest arrest.
TILF, a little-known extremist group, is “pro-Palestine, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government” and has been secretly fundraising to bring about a “revolutionary change in government,” FBI agents wrote in the affidavit for Legnon’s alleged co-conspirators.
“Moreover, TILF advocates that liberalism and peaceful protest will be the downfall of those who believe it is enough, and that ‘direct action is the only way,” prosecutors wrote.
Four members of the organization — Audrey Carroll, 30, Zachary Page, 32, Dante Garfield, 24, and Tina Lai, 41 — were arrested in Los Angeles after they were filmed in the Mojave Desert testing out their homemade explosives, the FBI announced Monday.
Page is also trans and has asked to be sent to a women’s jail.
The four, along with Legnon, were reportedly members of a Signal chat called “Order of the Black Lotus” — a TILF splinter group.
The alleged New Year’s Eve plot, dubbed “Operation Midnight Sun,” consisted of planting backpacks stuffed with bombs at two companies in Los Angeles, according to a handwritten plan discovered by investigators.
While executing search warrants in California investigators also discovered signs declaring “Death to America,” “Death to ICE” and “Long live Turtle Island and Palestine,” officials announced Monday.
The extremist group is named after “Turtle Island,” an Indigenous term, particularly among the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee, for the continent of North America.
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