Antifa Members Officially Plead Guilty to Terror Charges in Texas [WATCH]

Five defendants have pleaded guilty in federal court to providing material support to terrorists for their roles in a coordinated shooting on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Alvarado, Texas.

The incident occurred on the night of July 4, 2025, at the Prairieland facility.

The plea agreements mark the first known case in which individuals have formally admitted to being part of an organized Antifa cell in the United States.

On November 19, Seth Sikes, Joy Abigail Gibson, Lynette Read Sharp, Nathan Baumann, and John Phillip Thomas each pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists.

The charges stem from the shooting attack that left a police officer shot in the neck and led to additional officers coming under fire.

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As part of their plea deals, the defendants agreed to federal sentences capped at 15 years, avoiding the possibility of decades in prison.

The plea agreements included stipulated facts. Baumann, Gibson, and Sikes acknowledged, “Beginning on or about July 3, 2025, and continuing until on or about July 4, 2025, in the Northern District of Texas, [defendant name] planned with others to provide resources and personnel, including [himself/herself], knowing and intending that they would be used to carry out acts of terrorism.” They admitted the acts were “calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct.”

Baumann further admitted, “Baumann found that others who participated in the acts against Prairieland adhered to an Antifa, revolutionary anarchist or autonomous Marxist ideology that is anti-law enforcement, anti-immigration enforcement, and calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law. Antifa is a militant enterprise that advocates insurrection and violence to affect the policy and conduct of the U.S. government by intimidation and coercion.”

He also admitted participating in planning the “direct action” attack on July 3 and July 4.

All five defendants acknowledged that the Antifa cell “conducted an act of terrorism.”

Sikes provided additional detail in his agreed facts: “Sikes and his coconspirators adhered to an Antifa, anarchist ideology and organized cells or ‘affinity groups’ around their beliefs.”

According to the filing, the group formed decentralized cells modeled on Antifa’s organizational practices.

Gibson admitted using an encrypted messaging app to send reconnaissance photos of Prairieland’s surveillance cameras to others involved in the attack.

She stated that some participants conducted in-person reconnaissance at the facility earlier in the day on July 4.

Baumann, Gibson, and Sikes also admitted they wore black bloc clothing to conceal their identities from law enforcement.

Court filings stated that “co-conspirator-1,” who prosecutors say stood about 200 meters from the main group with an AR-15 rifle, fired on the facility to help Baumann escape.

Baumann admitted this during his plea.

Evidence in separate documents identifies the individual as Benjamin Hanil Song.

Sharp and Thomas, who were not present during the shooting, admitted to helping Song evade arrest.

Sharp acknowledged learning on July 5 that Song was hiding in the woods near the facility.

Sharp and Thomas admitted to providing property, lodging, communications equipment, personnel, or transportation while Song was an FBI and Texas Most Wanted fugitive for 11 days.

Sharp admitted using an encrypted messaging app to arrange housing for Song and stated, “Then on July 6, Sharp provided Coconspirator-1 with clothing, a whig [sic], a face covering, and other items so Coconspirator-1 could disguise his appearance from law enforcement.”

Sharp also arranged a transfer point in a parking lot so another individual could move Song to a second apartment.

The plea deals follow the indictment of additional suspects.

On November 14, seven more individuals — Benjamin Song, Savanna Batten, Bradford Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada — were indicted on federal charges including providing material support to terrorists, rioting, using weapons and explosives, obstruction, and attempted murder.

Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts were indicted on October 15 on similar terrorism counts, becoming the first individuals in the United States accused at the federal level of Antifa-related terrorism offenses.

Prosecutors expect more plea deals.

Rebecca Morgan and another defendant are scheduled to plead guilty next week.

Eighteen total individuals have been identified as suspects in the Prairieland attack, facing a combination of state and federal charges.

The five defendants who entered federal guilty pleas also face state charges in Johnson County.