Sentencing resumed on Wednesday for the remaining convicted defendants in the first federal antifa terrorism case, resulting in prison sentences ranging from two to 50 years.Seven additional members of a Texas antifa cell were sentenced to spend lengthy stretches in federal prison after eight of their coconspirators received a combined punishment of 450 years behind bars for carrying out a July 2025 attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that left a local police officer wounded from gunfire.Ines Houston Soto, the ninth federal trial defendant to face sentencing, was handed a 50-year prison term on Wednesday. Rebecca Morgan and Joy Abigail Gibson, who took non-cooperating plea deals ahead of trial, each received a 15-year prison sentence.
Seth Edison Sikes, Lynette Read Sharp, Nathan Josiah Baumann, and John Phillip Thomas, who also pleaded out but cooperated with prosecutors to testify against their accomplices, were given lighter sentences due to credit awarded for their cooperation. Sharp and Thomas were sentenced to 110 months, or a little over nine years, in federal prison; Sikes to 72 months, or roughly six years; and Baumann to 22 months.Soto was convicted alongside his partner, Elizabeth Andrea Soto, of providing material support to terrorists, rioting “with the intent to commit an act of violence,” and possession of and conspiracy to carry or use an explosive.
