Last Prairieland defendant in federal terrorism case get 6 years in prison
The final defendant who faced federal charges in the 2025 shooting at ICE’s Prairieland detention center, Susan Kent, was sentenced Monday to six years in prison.
Kent pleaded guilty in November to one count of providing material support to terrorists, according to court records. Kent was part of a group who helped plan Benjamin Song’s escape after he shot and wounded an Alvarado police officer during a protest outside the detention center on July 4, 2025, authorities have said.
Kent was a cooperating witness and testified against Song and others at a trial in Fort Worth that ended in March with convictions of nine defendants. Those defendants and six others who pleaded guilty received sentences totaling more than 500 years at hearings over the past two weeks.
Song, who was convicted of attempted murder, received the longest sentence at 100 years.
Prosecutors have described the case as the first domestic terrorism trial to lead to convictions of alleged antifa cell members. Antifa is short for anti-fascists. It is not a single organization but a decentralized movement of far-left militant groups, according to the Associated Press.
Defense attorneys argued during the trial that the defendants planned a peaceful protest and noise demonstration with fireworks to show support for people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The defendants convicted at trial have all filed notices of appeal with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
State charges are still pending against some of the defendants in Johnson County.
