Overview
- Federal judges on June 23, 2026 sentenced eight people convicted in the July 4, 2025 Prairieland Detention Center attack to sentences totaling about 450 years, including a 100-year term for Benjamin Hanil Song for attempted murder.
- A jury found the defendants guilty in March of counts that included providing material support to terrorists, weapons and explosives offenses, rioting, and related charges after a multi-week trial that used more than 210 exhibits and testimony from 46 witnesses.
- Prosecutors presented evidence they say showed paramilitary planning such as firearms, explosives and fireworks, body armor, encrypted messages, Faraday bags and medical kits, and they argued the group carried out a coordinated ambush that wounded an Alvarado police officer.
- DOJ and FBI leaders praised the sentences as a deterrent and a model for pursuing alleged Antifa-linked networks, while defense teams and civil liberties groups announced appeals and warned the use of terrorism statutes risks chilling protected protest and raising due-process concerns.
- Additional defendants who pleaded guilty or had delayed hearings are set to be sentenced on July 1, 2026, and legal challenges over the terrorism charges and First Amendment implications are likely to shape how similar protest-related prosecutions proceed.