White Nationalist Rally Targeted In Thwarted Terror Attack: FBI

LONG BEACH, CA — A white nationalist rally scheduled over the weekend at Bluff Park in Long Beach was the target of a terrorist attack, but federal authorities disrupted the plot, the Department of Justice announced Monday. One man, a U.S. Army infantryman from Reseda, has been arrested for allegedly plotting terrorists attacks around Southern California.

Mark Steven Domingo, 26, of Reseda, a former U.S. Army infantryman faces federal charges in a terrorist plot to detonate a bomb, causing mass casualties at the Long Beach rally over the weekend. He even went so far as to commission a series of nail bombs, and he staked out Bluff Park before he was arrested Friday night by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

In a criminal complaint filed by the Department of Justice, "DOMINGO" refers to the suspect arrested and "CHS" refers to an FBI Human Confidential Source:

"DOMINGO also brought up an upcoming April 28, 2019 rally in Long Beach organized by a "white nationalist" group, and told the CHS it was going to take place at Bluff Park. The CHS asked, 'So what's the plan?' DOMINGO said, 'We'll have to scope out the area. We'll have to keep up everyday updates about the rally, because at any point they can cancel it.' The CHS asked DOMINGO how he heard about the rally, and DOMINGO said he heard about it on the news and online. The CHS asked how DOMINGO wanted to carry out the attack, and DOMINGO said, 'Parking's gonna be an issue. We could do a hit-and-run [...]. We drive by, we empty a magazine or two. An AK. And we book it.'"

The United Patriot National Front (UPNF) had an event planned over the weekend at Bluff Park, but Long Beach police reported that they received a call from someone claiming to be leader of the group stating that the group would not be at Saturday's planned demonstration.

Community members still gathered Sunday in opposition, saying they were against white nationalism, ABC reported.

"I feel like it's a way of getting together to share what I think we have in common, which is a desire to preserve the community we have, the openness, the welcoming community that we have," rally attendee Kaney Fedovskiy told the news station.

UPNF has previously denied being a white nationalist group or supremacist group, but a Southern Poverty Law Center report from earlier this year linked the group to a known violent white nationalist who attended the rally in Charlottesville, ABC reported.

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Read the entire criminal complaint below: