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Some of the suspects charged with attempted murder of two ICE agents and a police officer at Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on Independence Day met in an online chat group on Signal, and court records show the incident could have been worse.
A July 7 criminal complaint filed by the U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas alleges that assailants shot 20 to 30 rounds from an AR-15-style rifle before it jammed, causing it to malfunction.
Investigators continued on Tuesday to look into how the suspects were linked, including through a possible Signal group chat. Ten individuals are facing federal charges, including three counts of attempted murder of federal agents in addition to three counts of «discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.»
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The 10 suspects in the ambush attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas are seen in front of a photo from the scene of the crime. Top row, left to right: Marciela Rueda, Savanna Batten, Joy Gibson, Meagan Morris a.k.a. Bradford Morris, Autumn Hill a.k.a. Cameron Arnold. Bottom row, left to right: Zachary Evetts, Nathan Baumann, Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto, Seth Sikes. (Johnson County Sheriff’s Office)
In addition, the U.S. Attorney’s office charged an 11th suspect, Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, with concealing evidence.
On Friday night, the heavily armed group lured two unarmed ICE agents into a parking lot by firing a barrage of fireworks at their door, and spray-painting graffiti on their personal cars with the words «traitor» and «Ice Pig,» which agents could see from the cameras inside.
Ten individuals have been charged for their roles in the shooting of an Alvarado police officer at the Prairieland Detention Center. (Justice Department)
At around the same time, a police officer responded to their 911 call for two men firing rounds from a nearby tree line, and an officer was hit in the neck, which forced the agents to take cover. The officer who was hit is expected to recover, according to DHS.
Suspect Bradford Morris was arrested while trying to flee from the scene in a red Hyundai van. While in custody, he told an FBI agent he had been «part of a Signal Group Chat for a while and that he had been invited to the group chat years ago after attending a protest.» He drove to the incident with another suspect and two people he only knew by their nicknames, «Champagne and Rowan.» Inside Morris’ van, police found a revolver, two AR-15 rifles, two Kevlar vests, a ballistic helmet and a loaded magazine.
According to the criminal complaint, Morris «claimed that he met some people online and transported some of them down from Dallas» to the center in order to «make some noise.»
Police also found seven suspects in black military fatigues wandering in a field 300 yards away, some of whom were covered in mud from trying to escape on foot. They also had weapons, vests and radios.
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The Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, where a police officer was shot in the neck and several ICE officers were shot at on Friday. (KDFW)
«One possibility is that they are related and this is a national concerted effort, to go after first responders,» Alex Del Carmen, criminologist, told Fox 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth.
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«The second possibility is that, in fact, this may not be related at all, and these are simply copycats, people are getting inspired to do this kind of harm to first responders because they’re reading what’s happening in other states,» he added.
Court records revealed extensive planning as well as anti-government literature obtained in an apartment tied to a suspect, including literature entitled «Organising for Attack! Insurrectionary Anarchy.»
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Court records revealed extensive planning as well as anti-government literature obtained in an apartment tied to a suspect. (Justice Department)
The term «insurrectionary anarchy» is explained as a «subset of anarchism that stands out for its commitment to violence and revolutionary insurrection,» according to a Perspectives on Terrorism journal article, which is part of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, from March 2024. The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point also had a journal article in March 2023 that explained «insurrectionary anarchism is regarded as the most serious form of domestic (non-jihadi) terrorist threat.»
Another suspect allegedly had flyers in his backpack with «Fight ICE terror with class war!» and «Free all political prisoners.»
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«ICE is actively working with the FBI and the Texas Rangers regarding the incident,» a DHS spokesperson said in a statement.
«Threats or acts of violence toward law enforcement officers will NOT be tolerated. Secretary Noem has made it clear: If you threaten or attempt to harm a law enforcement officer, we will find you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law,» the statement continued.
Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI and the Department of Justice.
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Trump allegedly thanked police for probing Epstein in 2000s, warned Ghislaine Maxwell is ‘evil’: FBI doc
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President Donald Trump allegedly called the Palm Beach, Florida, Police Department in the mid-2000s to thank them for investigating Jeffrey Epstein while simultaneously warning them to stay focused on «evil» Ghislaine Maxwell, according to an FBI document recapping an interview with the local department’s former chief.
«TRUMP called the PBPD (Palm Beach Police Department) to tell him ‘thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,’» reads an FBI document reviewed by Fox News Digital recounting a 2019 interview with former Palm Beach, Florida, Police Chief Michael Reiter.
When approached for comment, however, an official with the Department of Justice pushed back Tuesday that the office was «not aware of any corroborating evidence that the President contacted law enforcement 20 years ago.»
Reiter served as the police chief in Palm Beach, Florida, from 2001 to 2009. Reiter’s name was redacted from the FBI document released by the Department of Justice (DOJ), but confirmed to the Miami Herald that he was interviewed by the FBI in 2019 and that Trump called the police department regarding Epstein in July 2006, according to the outlet.
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President Donald Trump reportedly called the Palm Beach, Florida, Police Department in 2006 to thank them for investigating Jeffrey Epstein. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Reiter and a security and crisis management firm he operates, called Michael Reiter and Associates, Tuesday morning. Reiter declined to comment on the matter.
The FBI document was among the millions of files, photos and emails released by the DOJ following Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act in late 2025. The DOJ released its latest batch of files on Jan. 30.
The Florida police department began investigating Epstein in 2005 after receiving a call that a 14-year-old girl was allegedly molested by the financier, the Miami Herald reported. The call led to police uncovering other similar sexual abuse allegations and pulled Reiter into the investigation, the outlet wrote Monday.
The FBI document recapping Reiter’s reported interview with federal officials continued that Trump allegedly called Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate, «evil» and warned that police should «focus on her.»
«TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting,» the FBI document continued of the interview with the former police chief. «TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN’s operative, ‘she is evil and to focus on her,’ the report continues. «TRUMP told (redacted) that he was around EPSTEIN once when teenagers were present and TRUMP ‘got the hell out of there.’ TRUMP was one of the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating EPSTEIN.»
Fox News Digital also reached out to the White House on Tuesday morning for comment on the alleged phone call and FBI document.
The Department of Justice released a trove of Epstein documents Dec. 19, 2025, following President Donald Trump’s signature on the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025. (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
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Trump long has maintained that while he did at a time brush elbows with Epstein, he «threw him out» of his Mar-a-Lago resort back in the 2000s as details of his web of sex trafficking and pedophilia circulated.
Reiter’s interview with the FBI also backed up Trump’s longstanding comments that he ended any ties to Epstein in the early 2000s.
«Mar-A-Lago is a mixture of everyone,» the FBI document reads. «DONALD TRUMP told (redacted) that he threw EPSTEIN out of his club.»
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was a well-connected financier with a lengthy Rolodex of billionaires and celebrities who floated in and out of his orbit across the years. (Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Epstein was a well-connected financier with a lengthy Rolodex of billionaires and celebrities who floated in and out of his orbit across the years. He was convicted of sex trafficking minors in 2008 and served just more than one year of incarceration, which also included a controversial work-release arrangement under a plea agreement.
He was arrested again in 2019 on charges of sex trafficking before he was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell by suicide.
Jeffrey Epstein was seen in a handful of personal images in the second data set released by the DOJ on Dec. 19, 2025, including on boats and near helicopters. (Department of Justice)
Reiter’s interview with the FBI was held just two months after Epstein’s death, according to the Miami Herald.
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Trump signed legislation in November 2025 that required the Justice Department to release files related to the late convicted sex offender, with the DOJ releasing tranches of the documents since December 2025.
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Fifteen people were arrested in Europe on Tuesday for allegedly spreading Islamic State terrorist group propaganda over TikTok, a report said.
The suspects, whose ages ranged from 16 to 53, were taken into custody in raids across the Netherlands, according to Reuters.
The news agency cited Dutch prosecutors as saying the suspects were detained on suspicion of spreading propaganda from ISIS on TikTok and trying to persuade people to carry out terrorist attacks.
The arrests were sparked by a TikTok account that spread large amounts of ISIS propaganda with Dutch subtitles, the prosecutors reportedly added.
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A masked Islamic State fighter poses holding the ISIS flag in 2015. (Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Thirteen of those arrested were Syrian and four had Dutch nationality, suggesting that some of the suspects were dual nationals, Reuters reported.
TikTok did not immediately respond Tuesday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
The arrests come as the U.S. military remains active in Syria against ISIS.
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The suspects were accused of spreading ISIS propaganda over TikTok. (Fox News)
U.S. Central Command announced last Wednesday that it carried out five strikes against «multiple» Islamic State targets in recent days as part of a joint military effort to «ensure the enduring defeat of the terrorist network.»
CENTCOM said, from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, its forces «located and destroyed an ISIS communication site, critical logistics node, and weapons storage facilities with 50 precision munitions delivered by fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and unmanned aircraft.»
«Striking these targets demonstrates our continued focus and resolve for preventing an ISIS resurgence in Syria,» Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of CENTCOM, said in a statement.
U.S. airmen prepare to load GBU-31 munition systems onto F-15E Strike Eagles within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, on Dec. 19, 2025, in support of Operation Hawkeye Strike. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Reuters)
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CENTCOM said it launched the Operation Hawkeye Strike mission in response to a Dec. 13, 2025, ISIS «ambush» attack against U.S. and Syrian forces in Palmyra, Syria.
That attack left two U.S. service members and an American interpreter dead.
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