Eight "North Texas Antifa Cell" members were sentenced Tuesday to a combined 450 years in prison for weapons and explosives offenses and the attemped murder of a police officer in a July 4th riot at a ICE facility in Alvarado. File Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI | License Photo
June 24 (UPI) -- Eight people who the Justice Department alleges were part of antifa -- designated as a domestic terror group -- were sentenced to a combined 450 years in prison for their roles in an Independence Day 2025 riot outside Prairieland Detention Center in Texas, in which a local police officer was shot.
Benjamin Hanil Song was sentenced to 100 years for the attempted murder of the law enforcement officer in the incident at the ICE facility in Alvarado, along with discharging a firearm during the course of a violent crime, rioting, providing material support to terrorists and charges related to the use and possession of explosives, the Justice Department said Tuesday in a news release.
The former U.S. Marine Corps reservist was convicted in a trial in March along with eight other defendants who were found guilty of a range of offenses, but Song was the only one convicted of the attempted murder and firearms charges.
