Five suspects have pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in this summer’s Antifa ambush on an Alvarado ICE facility.

Nathan Baumann, 20, Seth Sikes, 22, Joy Gibson, 30, John Thomas, 32, and Lynette Sharp, 57, pleaded guilty on November 19 to “providing material support to terrorists,” according to WFAA. They are set for sentencing on March 12, facing up to 15 years in federal prison plus three years of supervised release.

These defendants are among nine suspects in a “North Texas Antifa Cell” recently indicted for the July 4 ambush on the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, where a militant shot a police officer in the neck, as The Dallas Express reported. 

“This is the first indictment in the country against a group of violent Antifa cell members,” said Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy Larson at the time.

During the plea hearing on November 19, all five defendants entered in shackles before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cureton in Fort Worth, according to WFAA. The hearing lasted 40 minutes. 

Cureton reportedly asked the suspects if they suffered ailments or took medication that would prevent them from understanding the proceedings. Two claimed depression, one claimed bipolar disorder, and two claimed ADHD. They said they understood they were waiving their right to a trial and were pleading guilty of their own will.  

With the indictment last week, officials filed “information” – beginning criminal proceedings – against Baumann, Gibson, Thomas, Sharp, Rebecca Morgan, and Susan Kent, accusing them of “providing material support to terrorists,” as The Dallas Express reported. Officials also levied the charge against Sikes in late October. 

Morgan and Kent did not plead guilty during the hearing, per WFAA. As The Dallas Express reported, Morgan is set to plead guilty next week.

The recent indictment also charged Benjamin Song, who allegedly acted as “leader,” Bradford Morris – a man who goes by “Meagan Morris,” Cameron Arnold – a man who goes by “Autumn Hill,” Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, Maricela Rueda, and Savanna Batten for their roles in the attack. They are scheduled for federal arraignment on December 3.

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The indictment marked the first federal charge against a group of Antifa cell members, after President Donald Trump designated it a domestic terror organization in September.

“The defendants were members of a North Texas Antifa Cell, part of a larger militant enterprise made up of networks of individuals and small groups primarily ascribing to an ideology that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law,” reads a previous DOJ release. 

Late on July 4, militants surrounded the ICE facility in Alvarado, south of Fort Worth, as The Dallas Express reported at the time. Gunmen took their positions and fired at ICE corrections officers, striking an Alvarado police officer.

The defendants were wearing “black bloc,” dark clothing with head and face coverings to conceal their identities. After arriving, they allegedly began vandalizing vehicles and a guard house, and shooting and throwing fireworks.

Corrections officers called 911, and an Alvarado police officer responded. He reportedly began issuing commands to Baumann when Song allegedly cried, “Get to the rifles!”

The suspects allegedly opened fire, striking the police officer in the neck while unarmed corrections officers ran for cover. The police officer got treatment at a local hospital and was released, and the corrections officers were uninjured.

Soon after the attack, police arrested most members of the Antifa cell, including many near the scene. But Song escaped, and the FBI captured him on July 15 at the Dallas apartment of his likely girlfriend, as The Dallas Express reported at the time. 

The Alvarado ICE ambush was just one instance of recent violence against immigration enforcement in Texas. 

A gunman attacked Customs and Border Protection in McAllen on July 7 – wounding one agent and two officers, as The Dallas Express reported. His car was marked “Cordis Die,” the slogan of a fictional revolutionary movement in the video game Call of Duty.

More recently, a sniper targeted the Dallas ICE facility on September 24. He was apparently trying to murder immigration agents, but instead, he killed two detainees and wounded another.

In October, Eduardo Aguilar – an illegal alien from Mexico, living in Dallas – faced federal charges for offering a $10,000 bounty on TikTok for the murder of ICE agents, as The Dallas Express reported. That same month, the Department of Homeland Security warned that cartels were offering bounties for the murder of federal agents.