Seth Edison Sikes, Lynette Read Sharp, Nathan Josiah Baumann, and John Phillip Thomas, who also pleaded out but cooperated with prosecutors to testify against their accomplices, were given lighter sentences due to credit awarded for their cooperation. Sharp and Thomas were sentenced to 110 months, or a little over nine years, in federal prison; Sikes to 72 months, or roughly six years; and Baumann to 22 months.

Soto was convicted alongside his partner, Elizabeth Andrea Soto, of providing material support to terrorists, rioting “with the intent to commit an act of violence,” and possession of and conspiracy to carry or use an explosive. 

Sikes, Morgan, Gibson, Sharp, Baumann, and Thomas faced a statutory maximum of 15 years in federal prison, instead of the decades they could have spent incarcerated had they been convicted at trial.

As part of their guilty-plea agreements, all six antifa associates acknowledged their affiliation with the Dallas-area antifa cell and confessed to a single count of providing material support to terrorists.

Morgan said she had helped hide the group’s at-large ringleader, Benjamin Hanil Song, while Thomas and Sharp were charged as “accessories after the fact” for assisting Song during a weeklong FBI manhunt.

Sikes, Gibson, and Baumann, who were found fleeing on foot close to the crime scene, admitted in sworn statements that the anti-ICE attack was launched “in line with [an] Antifa ideology.”

The cooperating defendants were reminded of the seriousness of their actions by the presiding judges and how it could have been a “slaughter” had Song’s gun not jammed and the injured officer failed to return fire.

Chief District Judge Reed O’Connor delivered some of the sentences after Judge Mark Pittman, the Trump appointee who oversaw the trial earlier this year, reassigned several defendants to him without a stated reason.

O’Connor, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, said when sentencing the other cell members that he intended to “send a message to anyone who shares similar ideologies,” suggesting that the sentences served as a deterrent to violent revolutionary-type actors.

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In his sentencing decisions last week, O’Connor employed the terrorism enhancements to trigger mandatory minimum prison terms and ordered their sentences to be served consecutively.

Following the June 23 sentencing hearing, the cell’s comrades made thinly veiled threats online to kill the federal judges over the outcome of the case. In one death threat appearing on Bluesky, an antifa activist asked for the location of O’Connor’s residence: “Anyone know where this judge lives? No reason, just asking.” Another anonymous account wrote, “He has an address,” referring to O’Connor. Brad Ganley, a left-wing militant from the St. Louis area, posted, “13 loops for Judge Mark Pittman,” meaning to hang him in a lynching.

“Time to treat Judge O’Connor as he is: a Nazi,” another suggested, clarifying that “Nazis should not be able to spend time breathing.” Some called for the assassination of O’Connor and Pittman by posting images of the Nintendo character Luigi, a reference to the accused UnitedHealthcare assassin Luigi Mangione, who has become a praised figure on the radical Left.

Four of the previously sentenced defendants have since filed an appeal, including Savanna Sue Batten, who is insisting that she was prosecuted for simply “attending a protest.”

Baumann’s attorney told Pittman that his client fears violent retaliation from his peers for flipping sides. At trial, he provided extensive evidence of the conspiracy. Baumann’s two-year sentence on Wednesday is the lowest so far of any of the defendants, including last week’s batch, whose individual prison terms ranged from 30 to 100 years.

Phillip Linder, an attorney for Sikes, said he feels that Pittman delivered a fair punishment for his client. “I think the sentences last week were high, because those were people who went to trial, and there’s different issues when you don’t accept responsibility,” Linder told The Dallas Morning News. “When you’re unwilling to acknowledge responsibility, that’s kind of the price you pay.” Linder added that Sikes is “very pleased” with his sentencing.

Mark Danielson, an attorney for Thomas, agreed that the sentences seemed reasonable. “It’s a fair process,” he said. “It’s a tough case.”

Susan Elaine Kent, the 16th and final federal defendant in the case, is scheduled for sentencing on July 6. She pleaded guilty to the same terrorism-related charge.