Five alleged members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a small, relatively new leftist organization based in southern California, were arrested December 12 for charges of possession of unregistered destructive devices, conspiracy, and threats in interstate commerce after a paid confidential human source and an undercover FBI employee began monitoring and reporting on the group’s activity. The paid confidential human source is said in the indictment to have been providing information to the FBI since August 2021.