Ngo Comment 6/23/2026
And their legal woes are not yet over.FORT WORTH, Texas — Eight members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell received historic federal sentences on Tuesday, with prison terms ranging from 30 years to life in prison for their roles in the shooting ambush on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. The attack led to the first federal Antifa terrorism prosecution — and later convictions — in U.S. history.
U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman sentenced ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song to 100 years in prison. Song was convicted of the most serious offenses in the case, including attempted murder and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Prosecutors proved at trial that he shot Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross in the neck during the Fourth of July attack last year.
Bradford Morris, a trans militant and sex worker known as “Meagan Morris,” who lived in a Dallas commune with other trans individuals he referred to as his “wives,” was sentenced to 50 years. (The Kessler Heights neighborhood commune also functioned as one of the group’s bases.)
Maricela Rueda was sentenced to 70 years in prison.
Elizabeth Soto was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Because of the large number of defendants, Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor simultaneously sentenced four additional convicts in a separate courtroom.
Cameron Arnold, also known as “Autumn Hill,” received 50 years in prison.
Zachary Evetts received 50 years.
Savanna Batten received 50 years in prison.
Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada, a Mexican national, received 30 years in prison.
The defendants were among nine Antifa members convicted by a federal jury in March following the first federal Antifa terrorism trial in U.S. history. Their prison sentences are the longest in American history for convicted violent Antifa members.
The cell plotted and carried out an attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, 2025.
Jurors found the defendants guilty of offenses including providing material support to terrorists, rioting, conspiracy involving explosives and related crimes.
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