Federal authorities charge pair who allegedly helped ICE facility attacker escape after shooting
At the beginning of this month, the Federal officials blamed two people in connection with an attack on a Texas Ice Detention Facility, which wounded one officer while the last suspect escaped.
According to the court documents, John Phillip Thomas and Lynette Read Sharp allegedly being an accessory after shooting at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado on 4 July.
“[Sharp and Thomas] He took part in the signal conversations showing the discovery. [and] The location of nearby police departments. ”
Authorities are still looking for the alleged attacker Benjamin Hanil Song. 32 -year -old Song is wanted for what the authorities say that there is an organized attack on ice officials by a group of 10 to 12 people.
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Four days after the attack, the authorities applied a search order in Thomas’s home in Dallas, Thomas initially rejected the couple before 2022, before they admit that they had been friends since 2022, and according to court documents, he lived together from September 2024 to the end of June.
He said that Thomas had hosted a friend on the day of the attack and came together with three people the next day, and then discussed the plans to help the authorities and help the song escape from the region. Court documents admitted that Thomas was later carrying a song in a separate house in the region.
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According to Federal prosecutors, after calling Thomas’s vehicle, civil servants discovered a Walmart receipt for a 30-round AR-15 magazine and the song of the song on 6 July.
Thomas said to the authorities that he bought clothes for songs.
The documents are also claimed to be a member of Thomas’s two separate signal chat groups, including the song, and Thomas has removed the song from one of the conversations after the shooting.
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It was also alleged that the group conversations were also accused of discussing plans to participate in an operation in the Prairieland Detention Center, but he said that he could not attend because of “family problems” and offered to watch the conversation for the group.
The court documents also reveal Sharp, which is allegedly used to help the song moved to another unnamed person from Thomas.
Authorities, 14 people allegedly connected to the attack, while the song remained in general.
Fox News Digital, Thomas and Sharp representing lawyers could not find immediately.
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“We believe that he is somewhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, but he expanded our promotion efforts to neighboring states,” FBI Dallas field office told Fox News Digital on Monday.
According to a guilty complaint, Song is accused of firing two AR-15-style rifles to a pair of correctional officers and an Alvarado police officer. The three issues of a federal officer are confronted with the attempted murder and to evacuate a firearm in the progress of a crime of violence.
The FBI did not respond immediately to Fox News Digital’s request.
The FBI offers a $ 25,000 award for the information that led to the arrest and conviction of Song, and the authorities say that the former US Marine Infantry reserve should be accepted as armed and dangerous.
“This is the last two charges, showing the walls closed [Song]”Larson said,” people are running out to go. ”
Stephen Sorace from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
