Far-Left Antifa member Benjamin Song – accused of helping ambush an ICE facility – was arrested Tuesday evening. Now, officials have published his mugshot and charged him with three crimes.
Federal agents busted Song, 32, around 6 p.m. on July 15 in north Dallas, as The Dallas Express previously reported. He was a fugitive allegedly involved in an ambush at an ICE detention facility in Alvarado – near Fort Worth – which wounded a police officer on July 4.
Song currently sits in the Johnson County Jail, facing a total bond of $15 million. He is charged with three crimes: “aiding in commission of terrorism,” “engaging in organized criminal activity,” and “aggravated assault on public servant.”
An FBI tactical team found Song after entering a unit in the Meadowcrest Apartments, at 5200 Meadowcreek Dr. in Far North Dallas, Johnson County District Attorney Tim Good previously told The Dallas Express. He said Song will “face federal charges and state charges.”
Song was with a woman and had “multiple firearms” in the apartment, according to Good.
“The FBI – their tactical team came in, hit the location, and that’s exactly where he was,” Good said at the time.
The Dallas Express visited the apartment complex.
Linda Saucedo, the apartments’ district manager, told The Dallas Express the capture of Song came as a “surprise,” but the apartment’s “door [is] back on” now.
Song was staying with a female resident who was likely his girlfriend, according to Saucedo.
Apartment staff perform record checks on residents, according to Saucedo, adding that Song’s apparent girlfriend had a “clean” background, and Song was not a resident.
The Dallas Express asked to see the apartment where Song was staying, but Saucedo declined.
Authorities offered a $35,000 reward for information leading to Song’s arrest — $25,000 from the FBI and $10,000 from Gov. Greg Abbott, as The Dallas Express previously reported.
Song allegedly purchased four firearms used by far-lef militants in the ambush on the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility on July 4. The assailants reportedly dressed in black body armor and used vandalism to lure ICE officers outside the facility, before opening fire. They shot a responding Alvarado police officer in the neck.
Song was reportedly a member of the Elm Fork chapter of the John Brown Gun Club, a self-described Antifa militant group. As The Dallas Express previously reported, Song was featured in “Anarcho-Airsoftist” combat training videos.
Earlier this month, law enforcement busted a Dallas residence in search of Song, as The Dallas Express reported. Instead of locating Song, they found more than 40 firearms, socialist propaganda, and fellow members of the John Brown Gun Club – including one with a violent past, who reportedly now identifies as “transgender.”
Ten suspects in the ambush – two of whom identify as “transgender” – were charged on July 7. Two others were charged on July 14 for allegedly assisting Song in evading arrest. One more individual was charged with evidence tampering.
“The fourteen individuals who planned and participated in these heinous acts will be prosecuted,” Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy Larson said in a statement at the time of the arrest. “We expect justice will be swift.”