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- NeoNazi
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born: 1997
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location: "Olympia, Washington"
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summary: "Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh was an Olympia, Washington Atomwaffen Division member who traveled with AWD leader Kaleb Cole to St. Petersburg in 2018 to receive paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement, pled guilty to firearms charges in 2020, and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison."
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[[Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh]] (born approximately 1997, [[Olympia, Washington]]) was a member of [[Atomwaffen Division]]'s Washington state cell who, in 2018, accompanied AWD leader [[Kaleb Cole]] on a trip to [[St. Petersburg]], [[Russia]], where the two received paramilitary training from the [[Russian Imperial Movement]]'s [[Partizan]] camp. He was subsequently arrested in Texas on federal firearms charges and sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.[^1]
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### Russia Training Trip (2018)
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In 2018, Bruce-Umbaugh and Cole traveled from Washington state to Europe on a trip that included multiple stops. According to investigative reporting drawing on federal prosecution documents, the two traveled through [[Ukraine]] using the Donbas green corridor to cross into Russia, reached St. Petersburg, and attended RIM's Partizan training facility. The training at Partizan covered firearms handling, explosives, squad movement, and tactical operations. The same facility had been used by [[Nordic Resistance Movement]] members from Sweden the year prior, whose subsequent bombings in Gothenburg (January 2017) provided the factual basis for the [[U.S. Department of State]]'s April 2020 SDGT designation of RIM.[^2]
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After completing the St. Petersburg training, Bruce-Umbaugh and Cole traveled back through Ukraine into Poland and documented their trip with a photograph taken at [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp. The photograph circulated within AWD's closed communications channels.[^2]
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The training in firearms, explosives, squad movement, and terrorist tactics was, according to federal investigators, brought back to Washington state and applied within AWD's organizational activities. The Russia trip is documented in investigative reporting as of 2022 and in court-adjacent materials from federal prosecutions of both Bruce-Umbaugh and Cole, though the precise citation to specific filed documents requires a direct PACER pull of the respective case records.[^3]
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### Federal Prosecution
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Bruce-Umbaugh was arrested and charged in the Northern District of Texas, case number 5:19-cr-00130, with possessing firearms and ammunition as a prohibited person under federal law. He entered a guilty plea on February 3, 2020. On April 28, 2020, he was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison before U.S. District Judge Terry Means in Fort Worth, Texas.[^1]
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The firearms charge rather than any terrorism-specific statute reflects the broader pattern of AWD-related prosecutions in 2019-2020, in which the federal government used available weapons statutes against members who could not be charged under the (then-unavailable) domestic terrorism designation framework. The same approach was used in the prosecution of [[Patrik Jordan Mathews]] (illegal alien in possession of a firearm) and others in the AWD network.[^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: GovInfo. USA v. Bruce-Umbaugh, Case 5:19-cr-00130 (N.D. Tex.). https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130-0; KLTV. "Suspected Neo-Nazi Sentenced to 2.5 Years for Gun Crime." April 28, 2020. https://www.kltv.com/2020/04/29/suspected-neo-nazi-sentenced-years-gun-crime/
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[^2]: Malcontent News. "Washington's Defunct Atomwaffen Division had Deep Ties to the Terrorist Org, Russia Imperialist Movement." July 4, 2022. https://malcontentment.com/washingtons-defunct-atomwaffen-division-had-deep-ties-to-the-terrorist-org-russia-imperialist-movement/
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[^3]: Cipher Brief. "Examining Atomwaffen Division's Transnational Linkages." https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/examining-atomwaffen-divisions-transnational-linkages; GWU Program on Extremism / ADL. "White Supremacist Terror." https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/White%20Supremacist%20Terror%20final.pdf
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- 764
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- TheComNetwork
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- ChildExploitation
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- NVE
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- FederalCase
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- Texas
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- USA
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summary: "Alexis Aldair Chavez, alias 'Zack8884,' administered the 8884 network within The Com ecosystem and in December 2025 became the first 764-affiliated defendant to plead guilty to federal RICO conspiracy charges."
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born: 2006
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location: "San Antonio, Texas"
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[[Alexis Aldair Chavez]] (born approximately 2006, [[San Antonio, Texas]]), known online as "Zack" and "Zack8884," was a leader and administrator of the [[8884 network]], a [[764 Network|764]]-related online child exploitation organization operating within [[The Com]] ecosystem. Chavez directed 8884's operations, which included coercing minors to self-harm on live video, producing and distributing [[CSAM]] (child sexual abuse material), and related exploitation. He pleaded guilty in December 2025 to RICO conspiracy and child exploitation counts in a case brought by the [[U.S. Department of Justice|Department of Justice]], becoming the first defendant in the broader 764/Com ecosystem to face federal racketeering charges. He faces up to 60 years in prison at sentencing.[^1]
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### 8884 Network
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8884's name derives from a member alias. The network operated as a sub-network within The Com's sextortion-and-coercion sphere, using the same foundational methods as 764: recruiting minors through social media and gaming platforms, coercing them into producing CSAM through blackmail and psychological manipulation, and demanding ongoing self-harm on video as continuing proof of control. Chavez held a leadership and administrative role, directing members and managing the network's operations.
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### Arrest and Guilty Plea
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The DOJ brought charges against Chavez in the federal court system. In December 2025, he pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy - a racketeering charge that treats the 8884 network as an ongoing criminal enterprise - alongside child exploitation counts. The RICO charge was notable as the first application of federal racketeering statutes to a 764-affiliated network, framing the organization's distributed online structure as an enterprise under federal law. Chavez was 19 at the time of his plea. His sentencing, scheduled for 2026, carries a maximum of 60 years.[^1]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "764 Extremist Group Leader Pleads Guilty to RICO and Child Exploitation Charges." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/764-extremist-group-leader-pleads-guilty-rico-child-exploitation-charges
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born: 1997-05-14
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location: "Bath, Somerset, England"
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created: 2026-05-21
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updated: 2026-05-21
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summary: "Andrew Dymock is a British neo-Nazi who founded the System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division after National Action's proscription, convicted on 15 terrorism and hate crime counts at the Old Bailey in 2021 and sentenced to 7 years."
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[[Andrew Dymock]] (born May 14, 1997, [[Bath]], Somerset, England) founded the [[System Resistance Network]] (SRN) and subsequently the [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (SKD), the two most significant organizational successors to [[National Action]] after its proscription in December 2016. SRN was itself proscribed in 2017 and SKD in 2019. Dymock was arrested in December 2018 at Gatwick Airport and tried at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) in London. A jury found him guilty on all 15 counts in June 2021 and on July 21, 2021, Judge [[Mark Dennis QC]] sentenced him to 7 years imprisonment plus 3 years extended licence, describing him as "dangerous" and posing "a significant risk of serious harm" to the public.[^1]
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### SRN and Sonnenkrieg Division
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After National Action's proscription Dymock founded SRN as a successor organization. Following internal disputes within SRN over the degree of [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A)-affiliated occultism to incorporate into the ideology, he founded the Sonnenkrieg Division in 2018. SKD was explicitly modeled on [[Atomwaffen Division]], incorporating O9A philosophy heavily, making it one of the most O9A-proximate proscribed organizations in the UK ecosystem. The Home Secretary proscribed SKD in 2019.
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Dymock operated SRN's website and its associated [[Twitter]] account, using both to disseminate terrorism content including calls for the extermination of Jewish people and encouragement of lone-actor attacks.[^2]
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A BBC News investigation exposed Dymock as the founder and leader of SRN and SKD. He was arrested in December 2018 at Gatwick Airport, where police found him carrying extremist literature and neo-Nazi insignia. The case was prosecuted at the Old Bailey over a jury trial. The verdict was returned in June 2021; sentencing followed on July 21, 2021.
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The 15 counts covered:
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- 12 terrorism-related offences: dissemination of terrorist material and encouraging terrorism through the SRN website and Twitter account, including content calling for the extermination of Jewish people and encouraging lone-actor violence
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Judge Mark Dennis QC noted in sentencing that Dymock had shown no remorse and posed a continuing danger.[^1]
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[^1]: Tell MAMA UK. "Neo-Nazi student to be sentenced for terrorism and hate offences." 2021. https://tellmamauk.org/neo-nazi-student-to-be-sentenced-for-terrorism-and-hate-offences/; Algemeiner. "British neo-Nazi who called for extermination of Jews sentenced to 7 years." July 2021. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/07/22/british-neo-nazi-who-called-for-extermination-of-jews-sentenced-to-7-years-in-jail/
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[^2]: Tracking Terrorism. "Andrew Dymock, Sonnenkrieg Division leader, convicted on 15 counts." https://trackingterrorism.org/chatter/right-wing-extremism-andrew-dymock-sonnenkrieg-division-skd-leader-convicted-15-counts-sente/
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summary: "Ashley Gorski is a senior staff attorney in the ACLU's National Security Project who has led the organization's Fourth Amendment litigation against Section 702 backdoor searches, including joining the defense in United States v. Russell."
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[[Ashley Gorski]] is a senior staff attorney in the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]'s [[ACLU National Security Project]], where she focuses on government surveillance, national security prosecutions, and racial and religious discrimination in the national security context. She has been the ACLU's primary litigator pressing Fourth Amendment challenges to the practice of "backdoor searches" of [[Section 702]] of the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] databases using U.S. person identifiers.
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### United States v. Russell
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Gorski led the ACLU's intervention in [[United States v. Russell, 1:23-cr-00029 (D. Md.)]], the prosecution of [[Brandon Russell]] for conspiring to attack the [[Baltimore Gas and Electric]] power grid. The ACLU joined Russell's defense team "for the limited purpose of challenging the government's secretive warrantless surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act," a posture that allowed the organization to press the constitutional question without endorsing Russell's conduct or ideology.
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Gorski stated publicly: "Based on the government's own disclosures, the ACLU has good reason to believe that Mr. Russell was subjected to Section 702 surveillance and his case is a rare and important opportunity to challenge the government's practice of conducting warrantless 'backdoor searches' of its Section 702 databases to locate the communications of Americans."[^1]
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The ACLU's basis for inferring Section 702 collection was an [[ODNI]] document, "FISA Section 702 Value Vignettes" (February 14, 2024), which described an FBI investigation matching the disclosed profile of the Russell case. The challenge sought to establish a right to notice and to contest the constitutional adequacy of warrantless database searches of Americans' communications collected incidentally under a foreign intelligence authority.[^1]
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Gorski and the ACLU National Security Project also represented [[Agron Hasbajrami]] in the extended constitutional litigation in the [[Second Circuit]] and the [[Eastern District of New York]] over whether Section 702 backdoor searches require a warrant. The Second Circuit's 2019 ruling in that case held that U.S. person queries constitute "separate Fourth Amendment events," and the subsequent January 2025 district court ruling (the first federal decision imposing a warrant requirement on Section 702 queries) was a direct product of the ACLU's litigation strategy in Hasbajrami.[^2]
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Gorski has led ACLU FOIA litigation seeking the public release of classified FISC opinions addressing Section 702 surveillance. This work produced the release of two FISC opinions in September 2023 documenting compliance failures including improper querying of racial justice protesters, January 6 Capitol breach suspects, a sitting state court judge, congressional campaign donors, and journalists. A further FOIA suit filed April 2024 sought additional withheld opinions.[^3]
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[^1]: Baltimore Banner, "ACLU Signs On to Defend Neo-Nazi Charged with Power Grid Plot." https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/neo-nazi-baltimore-power-grid-aclu-national-security-defense-PA277N47ANCLPAMBKAFHXNZ45U/; Baltimore Sun, June 27, 2024. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/06/27/prosecutors-will-say-in-secret-whether-they-used-controversial-spying-tool-against-neo-nazi-accused-in-baltimore-power-grid-plot/
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[^2]: United States v. Hasbajrami, 945 F.3d 641 (2d Cir. 2019); United States v. Hasbajrami, 11-cr-00623-LDH (E.D.N.Y.), Memorandum and Order (declassified Jan. 21, 2025). ACLU press release: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-rules-warrantless-section-702-searches-violated-the-fourth-amendment
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[^3]: ACLU, "Government Releases New Court Opinions Highlighting Further Abuse of Warrantless FISA Surveillance Program," September 2023. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/government-releases-new-court-opinions-highlighting-further-abuse-of-warrantless-fisa-surveillance-program; ACLU v. United States (SDNY, filed April 2024). https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/04/2024-04-25-Complaint-Filed.pdf
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summary: "Bradley Chance Cadenhead, alias 'Felix,' is the Texas teenager who founded the 764 network around 2020 after encountering CVLT methods in a Minecraft server, currently serving an 80-year Texas state sentence."
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[[Bradley Chance Cadenhead]], known online as "Felix," is the founder of the [[764 Network|764]] online extremist network, which he created in 2020-2021 at approximately 15 years of age after encountering and absorbing the methods of the predecessor [[CVLT]] network. He is currently serving an 80-year sentence in [[Texas]] state prison following his May 2023 conviction on nine counts of child pornography possession.
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Cadenhead was a school dropout living in Texas at the time he encountered CVLT. His entry point into the sextortion and child exploitation milieu was a conversation with a CVLT member in a [[Minecraft]] server, through which he learned the basic methods of online grooming, compromising-image collection, and blackmail escalation that CVLT founder [[Rohan Rane]] had pioneered. Cadenhead adapted and extended these methods through the network he subsequently built.[^1]
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Cadenhead founded 764 in 2020 and it became publicly known by 2021. He named the group after his local zip code. Using [[Discord]] as the primary platform, Cadenhead recruited members into a community structured around the production and sharing of CSAM and the coercion of victims into self-harm and animal cruelty, using obtained compromising material as leverage. The methods he established became the operational template that later 764 leaders, including [[Baron Cain Martin]], elaborated into the formalized handbook system and tiered hierarchy documented in court filings. Following Cadenhead's August 2021 arrest, 764 continued under successor leaders, eventually fracturing into [[The Com]] ecosystem of splinter groups; by mid-2026 the FBI was conducting more than 350 active investigations tied to 764 and its affiliates, with the broader prosecution encompassing at least 37 defendants across multiple federal districts alongside an international [[Europol]] operation.[^1]
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In August 2021, after investigators traced a CSAM upload on Discord to his mother's apartment, Cadenhead was arrested. He was 15 or 16 years old at the time. The case was prosecuted in Texas state court. Cadenhead pleaded guilty to nine counts of possession of child pornography and on May 16, 2023, was sentenced to 80 years in Texas state prison. He is currently incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.[^2]
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[^1]: ARC Research. "CVLT Historical Threat Assessment of the Precursor to 764." https://www.accresearch.org/shortanalysis/svjdmt1twn9ccz0c4uxnbqrauywwcn
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[^2]: ADL. "764." Backgrounder. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764
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summary: "Cain Lee Clark was a San Diego teenager who co-perpetrated the May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, co-authoring an accelerationist manifesto citing Siege, Atomwaffen Division, and Terrorgram, and dying at the scene."
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[[Cain Clark|Cain Lee Clark]] was a 17-year-old resident of the [[Clairemont]] neighborhood of [[San Diego, California]] who, on May 18, 2026, co-perpetrated the [[2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting|attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego]] alongside [[Caleb Vazquez|Caleb Liam Vazquez]]. Three people were killed in the attack. Clark subsequently shot Vazquez twice in the head inside their vehicle at Vazquez's request, then killed himself. He co-authored a 75-page manifesto titled "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant" that cited [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]*, [[Atomwaffen Division]], [[Terrorgram Collective|Terrorgram]], and [[The Base]] and described himself as a "Christian ecofascist."
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Clark grew up in Clairemont, attended Kate Sessions Elementary School, and later the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. He was a member of the wrestling team at Madison High School in the 2024-2025 school year and was on track to graduate in June 2026. From 2021 onward he was schooled partially online. No significant prior disciplinary record was reported beyond a single elementary school incident in 2015. His social media was described by investigators as reflecting "possible associations with nihilistic violent extremist ideology," though no prior law enforcement contact with Clark was on record.
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Clark met [[Caleb Vazquez]] online before the two discovered they both lived in the [[San Diego]] area and began meeting in person. The radicalization environment he and Vazquez shared was described by experts as consistent with accelerationist white supremacist online networks that require intentional seeking out, though initial exposure can happen on mainstream platforms.[^1]
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Clark contributed a section to the 75-page manifesto "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant," which the two co-authored. Clark's section described himself as a "Christian ecofascist." Both sections together cited [[Brenton Tarrant]] (the 2019 Christchurch shooter) as an inspiration - the manifesto title explicitly frames the attack as continuing Tarrant's "momentum" - and cited [[James Mason]]'s *Siege* and William Luther Pierce's *The Turner Diaries* as texts that "should be read almost biblically by all soldiers of the white race."
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The manifesto stated the attack was carried out for Atomwaffen Division, Terrorgram, and The Base. It drew extensively on [[Great Replacement Theory]], framing the attack as a response to Muslim "invasion" of the United States, and expressed systematic antisemitism, with Jews described as "the universal enemy." Physical evidence found on the shooters' equipment included an Atomwaffen Division logo and Sonnenrad patch, linking the attack's aesthetics to the visual grammar developed by AWD and distributed through Terrorgram channels.
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Clark and Vazquez attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego on the morning of May 18, 2026, shooting three victims outside the mosque before security guard [[Amin Abdullah]] engaged them in a gun battle that delayed their advance and allowed approximately 150 students in the attached school to shelter safely. The two fled and drove away; during the escape they fired on a landscaper, whose bullet was deflected by his helmet. They were found dead approximately three-tenths of a mile from the mosque. Vazquez had asked Clark to kill him; Clark shot Vazquez twice in the head and then killed himself. No criminal prosecution is possible given both perpetrators' deaths.
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[^1]: NBC News. "San Diego mosque suspects' writings reveal influence of online extremism." May 2026. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/san-diego-mosque-shooting-extremism-online-accelerationist-livestream-rcna346066
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[^2]: ADL. "San Diego Mosque Shooters' Apparent Manifestos Reveal Anti-Muslim Extremism." May 2026. https://www.adl.org/resources/article/san-diego-mosque-shooters-apparent-manifestos-reveal-anti-muslim-extremism
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[^3]: Daily Beast. "Leak Reveals Mosque Gunman Cain Clark's Disturbing Racial Pride Suicide Note." May 2026. https://www.thedailybeast.com/leak-reveals-mosque-gunman-cain-clarks-disturbing-racial-pride-suicide-note/
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updated: 2026-05-22
|
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summary: "Cameron Finnigan was a 19-year-old from Horsham convicted in January 2025 at the Old Bailey of possessing a terrorism manual and encouraging a young woman to livestream her suicide, sentenced to six years as a member of the 764 network, which Counter Terrorism Policing described as posing an immense threat."
|
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---
|
||||
|
||||
Cameron Finnigan, 19, of Horsham, West Sussex, joined the [[764 Network|764]] online extremist network in late 2023. [[Counter Terrorism Policing]] became aware of him in March 2024 following intelligence about his online activity. He pleaded guilty on 4 October 2024 to five counts. He was sentenced at the [[Central Criminal Court]] (Old Bailey) on 16 January 2025 by Mr Justice Jay to six years' imprisonment followed by three years' extended licence.[^1]
|
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|
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### Offences
|
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|
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The five counts to which Finnigan pleaded guilty were:
|
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|
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One count of possessing a document for terrorist purposes under section 58 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]]: an 11-page PDF document outlining how to carry out vehicle ramming ("truck attacks") and providing attack planning information for knife and firearm mass-casualty events.
|
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|
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One count of doing an act capable of encouraging or assisting suicide under section 2 of the [[Suicide Act 1961]] as amended: Finnigan had communicated with a young woman via [[Telegram]], encouraging her to die by suicide and asking her to livestream the act to members of his online group.
|
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|
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Two counts of criminal damage.
|
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|
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One count of possessing indecent images of children.
|
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|
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### Sentencing Remarks and Risk Assessment
|
||||
|
||||
Mr Justice Jay applied a 25% reduction to the overall sentence to account for Finnigan's youth and documented mental health issues. He assessed Finnigan as posing a high risk of serious harm to the public, including children. The sentencing remarks are published on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Counter Terrorism Policing issued a public statement in connection with the sentencing describing 764 as posing "an immense threat" and characterising its ideology as "Satanic extremist" with "militant accelerationist (extreme right wing)" characteristics.[^2]
|
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|
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### 764 and O9A
|
||||
|
||||
764 is a decentralised online network documented extensively in the [[764 Network]] vault entry. Its connection to [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) is ideological and aesthetic rather than organisational: 764 adopted O9A visual symbolism and the structural logic of O9A's [[Insight Roles]] concept, in which committing crimes functions as a form of spiritual initiation. The [[ISD]] characterised O9A materials as having "directly influenced the operational practices of 764." Finnigan's case is the first publicly named 764-specific UK terrorism conviction where the defendant was prosecuted under section 58 for possession of attack-planning material rather than for content relating to a proscribed organisation.
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|
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### Footnotes
|
||||
|
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[^1]: R v Cameron Finnigan, Sentencing Remarks, Central Criminal Court, 16 January 2025. Mr Justice Jay. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/R-v-Finnigan.pdf; Sussex Police. "Man sentenced for terror offences." January 2025. https://www.sussex.police.uk/news/sussex/news/court-results/man-sentenced-for-terror-offences/
|
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|
||||
[^2]: Counter Terrorism Policing. "Cameron Finnigan Sentencing." LinkedIn, January 2025. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/counter-terrorism-policing_cameron-finnigan-sentencing-activity-7285970499417849858-0K5p; Counter Terror Business. "'Satanist' teenager jailed for terrorism offences." January 17, 2025. https://counterterrorbusiness.com/news/17012025/satanist-teenager-jailed-terrorism-offences
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
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tags:
|
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- Person
|
||||
- TerrorgramCollective
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
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- Accelerationism
|
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- Brazil
|
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- SDGT
|
||||
born: 1987-08-27
|
||||
location: "Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
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updated: 2026-05-22
|
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summary: "Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira is a Brazilian national from Belo Horizonte designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury and State Department on January 13, 2025, for his role as a Terrorgram Collective channel administrator running at least six Telegram channels promoting accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda."
|
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---
|
||||
|
||||
Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira (born August 27, 1987, [[Belo Horizonte]], [[Minas Gerais]], Brazil) is a Brazilian national designated as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] (SDGT) on January 13, 2025, pursuant to [[Executive Order 13224]], as amended by [[Executive Order 13886]], in connection with his role as an administrator of the [[Terrorgram Collective]]. He was one of three foreign nationals designated simultaneously alongside [[Noah Licul]] (Croatia) and [[Hendrik-Wahl Muller]] (South Africa), the same action that formally designated the Terrorgram Collective itself as a terrorist organization. No Brazilian criminal charges arising from his Terrorgram activity have been publicly confirmed as of mid-2026; the designation is a US Treasury [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) civil sanction, not a criminal indictment.[^1]
|
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|
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### Designation
|
||||
|
||||
The [[US Department of State]] press release of January 13, 2025, described Ferreira as "a Terrorgram channel administrator" and "a Brazilian national residing in Brazil." The simultaneously issued [[Federal Register]] notice (Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, published January 15, 2025) formalized the OFAC designation, assigning him SDN entry number 52486 on the [[Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List]]. The OFAC record lists his address as Rua Maranhao, 1566 Apto 502, Funcionarios, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais; his Brazilian passport number FD621325; and his National ID number 08388816616. His alias in the SDN list is "Ciro Daniel Ferreira."[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
As a result of the designation, all property and interests in property subject to US jurisdiction belonging to Ferreira are blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from transactions with him. The designation activates secondary sanctions risk under section 1(b) of the executive order.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Role in the Terrorgram Collective
|
||||
|
||||
The State Department described Ferreira as an administrator of at least six [[Telegram]] channels, operating under the broader [[Terrorgram Collective]] network of more than 200 Telegram channels that collectively produce and disseminate accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda. The Terrorgram Collective provides guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and targets for attacks, including against critical infrastructure and government officials. Ferreira also maintained an active presence on [[Substack]], [[X (formerly Twitter)]], [[YouTube]], and [[Quora]], with an inactive [[Instagram]] profile, consistent with the Terrorgram ecosystem's use of multiple platforms to preserve redundancy against takedowns.[^1][^3]
|
||||
|
||||
In 2023, Brazilian researcher [[Michele Prado]], founder of the NGO [[Stop Hate Brasil]], submitted a report to Brazil's [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] that identified Telegram channels linked to Ferreira and other members of the Terrorgram network operating in Brazil. This report represented one of the first formal institutional flaggings of Ferreira's channels to Brazilian authorities.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Prior Criminal Record
|
||||
|
||||
Brazilian state-level records, as reported by Brazilian media following the 2025 designation, indicate that Ferreira has two prior prison records from units in [[Minas Gerais]], for crimes including theft, bodily injury, and false imprisonment. He was imprisoned twice, in 2015 and 2016, receiving court-issued release warrants in both instances. These offenses predated his documented Terrorgram activity and are unrelated to extremism or terrorism charges.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### Pre-Extremism Activity
|
||||
|
||||
According to OSINT sources cited in contemporaneous Brazilian and Latin American coverage, Ferreira previously directed a space in Belo Horizonte "dedicated to the promotion of the interests and rights of children and adolescents through information and communication technologies," an activity consistent with a civic or educational technology orientation before his documented involvement in accelerationist networks.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### Aracruz Attack and Wolf Boy Winter
|
||||
|
||||
The US government did not publicly detail in the January 2025 designation documents whether Ferreira had direct contact with [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]], who carried out the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] on November 25, 2022. The State Department's broader Terrorgram designation cited the Aracruz attack as one of the attacks motivated and facilitated by the Terrorgram network, alongside the October 2022 LGBTQ+ bar shooting in [[Bratislava]] and subsequent attacks. The Aracruz connection to Terrorgram was most specifically documented through [[Dallas Humber]]'s prosecution: Humber and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] discussed a Brazilian contact planning a racially motivated school attack approximately one month before the attack, and Humber subsequently created saint cards for Castiglioni.[^5]
|
||||
|
||||
A figure using the [[Terrorgram]] pseudonym "[[Wolf Boy Winter]]" posted a video still from Aracruz attack surveillance footage to a major Terrorgram channel approximately two days after the November 25, 2022 attack, and contributed multiple pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," one of Terrorgram's primary propaganda publications. Michele Prado's 2023 ABIN report identified channels linked to "Wolf Boy Winter." No public source has established the identity of "Wolf Boy Winter" as Ferreira; the two remain separately documented nodes in publicly available records.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### International Designations
|
||||
|
||||
The January 13, 2025, action designated Terrorgram as a terrorist organization and simultaneously named three foreign administrators in three different countries, a structure reflecting the network's explicitly transnational character. Noah Licul (Croatia), designated as a "senior member," had been active in the network since at least 2019 under the alias "buntovnik" and is documented in the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] to Terrorgram personnel lineage. Hendrik-Wahl Muller (South Africa) was described as a channel administrator, parallel to Ferreira's role description.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
The Terrorgram Collective had already been designated by the [[United Kingdom]] (April 2024, SI 2024/569), [[Australia]] (F2025L00762), and [[Canada]] (SOR/2025-263) before and following the US action. None of these proscription instruments publicly named Ferreira specifically. The US action of January 13, 2025 was the first government designation to name a Brazilian national as a Terrorgram Collective administrator.[^1][^6]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: US Department of State, "Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders," January 13, 2025. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/
|
||||
|
||||
[^2]: Federal Register, Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, "Specially Designated Global Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective, Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira, Noah Licul, and Hendrik-Wahl Muller," January 15, 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00756/specially-designated-global-terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-ciro-daniel-amorim; OFAC SDN Entry 52486, sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=52486
|
||||
|
||||
[^3]: GNET (Global Network on Extremism and Technology). "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/
|
||||
|
||||
[^4]: CNN Brasil. "Quem e o brasileiro que integra a lista de terroristas do governo dos EUA," January 2025. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/sudeste/mg/quem-e-o-brasileiro-que-integra-a-lista-de-terroristas-dos-eua/; Infobae. "Un brasileno declarado terrorista por EEUU es uno de los lideres de 'Terrorgram'," January 16, 2025. https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2025/01/16/un-brasileno-declarado-terrorista-por-eeuu-es-uno-de-los-lideres-de-terrorgram-la-red-supremacista-de-telegram/
|
||||
|
||||
[^5]: US Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder," December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and
|
||||
|
||||
[^6]: UK SI 2024/569, Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024; Canada Gazette SOR/2025-263, December 17, 2025; Australia F2025L00762, legislation.gov.au.
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- CVLT
|
||||
- ChildExploitation
|
||||
- CSAM
|
||||
- ChildExploitationEnterprise
|
||||
- Hawaii
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
born: 1983
|
||||
location: "Pahoa, Hawaii"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, aliases 'Whoops' and 'Jordan', was a CVLT member from Pahoa, Hawaii who pleaded guilty in December 2025 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and whose identity was established through an ISUPD subpoena investigation linking a fraudulent Honolulu address to his Pahoa residence."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Clint Borge]] (full name Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, aliases "Whoops" and "Jordan") is a member of [[CVLT]] and the [[764 Network|764]] network, based in [[Pahoa, Hawaii]] on the Big Island. He was 41 at arrest and 42 at his December 2025 guilty plea. The investigation that identified him as the fourth core CVLT member was conducted by [[Iowa State University Police Department]] Officer [[Kami Feld]], who subpoenaed IP and payment records that linked a fictitious Honolulu address to his actual Pahoa residence.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Identification and Arrest
|
||||
|
||||
Federal investigators at [[Homeland Security Investigations]] (HSI) had identified three of the four CVLT core leaders before Borge's real-world identity was established. His Discord alias "Whoops" was known; his identity was not. In November 2020, an Iowa State University student reported ongoing blackmail to ISUPD, and Officer Kami Feld's investigation led to subpoenas to electronic service providers. One subpoena response returned IP activity across four locations, including Hawaii. A digital payment account associated with the IP trail used the address 4 Goldfield Road, Honolulu. Feld's verification search found that address linked to several suspicious businesses but no verifiable physical location. The investigation traced from the Honolulu address to Borge's actual residence in Pahoa, Hawaii. HSI Honolulu conducted the physical arrest when the indictment was unsealed in February 2025.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
At Borge's initial appearance, a federal magistrate denied bail. He was remanded to U.S. Marshals custody and transported to Los Angeles for proceedings before District Judge [[Hernan D. Vera]] in the [[Central District of California]].[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Federal Case (United States v. Rane, 2:25-cr-00040)
|
||||
|
||||
The grand jury returned the indictment on January 17, 2025. Borge faced one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]]. DOJ filings described Borge as a member of the enterprise who participated in and directed victims during the creation of CVLT extortion videos and other CSAM. He was distinguished from [[Rohan Rane]], [[Kaleb Merritt]], and [[Collin Walker]], who were charged as leaders and administrators who also hosted and ran CVLT servers and controlled membership.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
Borge pleaded guilty in December 2025. Judge Vera scheduled his sentencing for March 12, 2026. As of May 2026, no DOJ press release announcing Borge's actual sentence had been published, suggesting the hearing may have been continued. He faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Iowa State Daily. "How ISUPD uncovered a Neo-Nazi sexual predator ring." 2025. https://iowastatedaily.com/335620/news/how-the-isupd-uncovered-a-neo-nazi-sexual-predator-ring/; Iowa State University News Service. "A call for help leads ISU Police to sexual predator, international investigation." February 12, 2025. https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2025/02/12/isu-police-exploitation
|
||||
[^2]: Hawaii Tribune-Herald. "Judge: No bail for alleged CVLT member from Pahoa." February 6, 2025. https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/02/06/hawaii-news/judge-no-bail-for-alleged-cvlt-member-from-pahoa/; Honolulu Star-Advertiser. "Puna man accused of neo-Nazi sexploitation, 'horrific acts against children.'" February 1, 2025. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/02/01/hawaii-news/puna-man-accused-of-neo-nazi-sexploitation-horrific-acts-against-children/
|
||||
[^3]: DOJ OPA. "Four Members of Online Neo-Nazi Group that Exploited Minors Charged with Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material." February 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-members-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-minors-charged-producing-child-sexual-abuse
|
||||
[^4]: DOJ OPA. "Man Pleads Guilty to Participating in Online Neo-Nazi Group that Exploited Children into Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material." March 2026. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-pleads-guilty-participating-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-children-producing-child
|
||||
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- InJektDivision
|
||||
- Texas
|
||||
- Convicted
|
||||
born: 1989
|
||||
location: "Kerrville, Texas"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Coleman Thomas Blevins is the founder of InJekt Division, a neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization, who was arrested in May 2021 after threatening a mass shooting at a Walmart and sentenced in May 2024 to 60 months in federal prison on a felon-in-possession count."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Coleman Thomas Blevins (born approximately 1989, Kerrville, Texas) is the founder of [[InJekt Division]], a neo-Nazi accelerationist [[Telegram]] organization he established in February 2021. He operated under the alias "Korb" (also "Kørbe") and served as one of two members of the group's self-described inner circle, the "Shock Waffen Twins." Blevins was arrested in May 2021 after posting a mass-shooting threat targeting a [[Kerrville]] Walmart on social media, and was sentenced in May 2024 to 60 months in federal prison following a guilty plea to one count of felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm in the [[Western District of Texas]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### InJekt Division Founding
|
||||
|
||||
Blevins founded InJekt Division in February 2021. Using the Telegram alias Korb, he developed the group's ideology (which he and members called "[[clerical fascism]]," a blend of accelerationist national socialism, religious framing, and misogyny) and its signature slogan, "pray for rain," referencing a desired nuclear event that would collapse civilization. During at least one far-right podcast, a person using the name Korb identified himself as the president of the organization. Blevins appeared in promotional photographs holding firearms alongside InJekt Division imagery.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
In a February 2021 Telegram post, Blevins described the inner circle as led by the "Shock Waffen Twins" (SWT), two individuals who directed all group activity and membership decisions. Photographs in InJekt Division's Telegram channel confirmed Blevins as one of the two; the second SWT member's identity was never publicly confirmed in any court document or named press account.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Feuerkrieg Division]] re-emerged on Telegram in May 2021 specifically to promote and network with InJekt Division, publicly announcing a strategic partnership. InJekt Division and FKD together served as the primary organizing infrastructure for the [[United Acceleration Front]], one of two militant accelerationist Telegram coalitions documented by the [[Middlebury Institute CTEC]] and [[Tech Against Terrorism]] in their 2022 joint report on neo-fascist coalition-building.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Arrest and Federal Case
|
||||
|
||||
On May 27, 2021, Blevins posted publicly to social media: "I'm going to Walmart," followed by a photograph of himself holding a black AR-15 rifle, and then the message, "I have no problem spending the rest of my life in prison for Shootings [sic] up Walmart." Kerr County, Texas authorities executed a search warrant on May 28, 2021. Officers found 556 rounds of ammunition in Blevins's apartment and an AR-15 with four magazines in a vehicle belonging to his roommate, consistent with the weapon in the photograph.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
The federal case, USA v. Blevins (case number 5:22-cr-00169), was filed in the [[Western District of Texas]] on April 6, 2022, on the single count of felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm. Blevins entered a guilty plea on November 28, 2023. A judge in the Western District sentenced him to 60 months (five years) in federal prison in May 2024. The prior felony that triggered the felon-in-possession charge was not specified in the available press releases.[^1][^4]
|
||||
|
||||
No federal terrorism or material support charges were filed in connection with InJekt Division's Telegram activities.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-WDTX. "Kerrville Man Who Made Terrorist Threats Sentenced on Firearm Charges." May 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/kerrville-man-who-made-terrorist-threats-sentenced-firearm-charges; KSAT. "Coleman Thomas Blevins, 31, sentenced on firearm charges." May 9, 2024. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/05/09/kerrville-man-accused-of-making-terroristic-threats-sentenced-to-5-years-on-felony-firearm-charges/
|
||||
[^2]: ADL. "Texas Man Arrested for Terrorist Threats Targeting Local Walmart." June 2021. https://www.adl.org/resources/article/texas-man-arrested-terrorist-threats-targeting-local-walmart; Raw Story. "The Kerrville Nazi who threatened to shoot up Walmart started a martyrdom cult and fantasized about a nuclear holocaust." https://www.rawstory.com/coleman-thomas-blevins/
|
||||
[^3]: Middlebury Institute CTEC / Tech Against Terrorism. "Militant Accelerationism Coalitions: A Case Study in Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Coalition Building Online." June 2022. https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/militant-accelerationism-coalitions-case-study
|
||||
[^4]: PacerMonitor. USA v. Blevins, 5:22-cr-00169, Texas Western District Court. https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/44455132/USA_v_Blevins; CBS News. "Texas man arrested after authorities say they intercepted plans for a mass shooting at Walmart." May 30, 2021. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coleman-blevins-planned-walmart-mass-shooting-texas/
|
||||
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- FeuerkriegDivision
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
- Nevada
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- TerroristPlot
|
||||
born: 1995
|
||||
location: "Las Vegas, Nevada"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Conor Climo was a Las Vegas white supremacist and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to two years in federal prison in 2020 for possessing bomb-making components after an FBI undercover operation documented his plans to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and LGBTQ bar."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Conor Climo was a resident of [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] who communicated with members of [[Feuerkrieg Division]] beginning in late 2017 and developed plans to conduct arson and explosive attacks against Jewish and LGBTQ targets in the Las Vegas area. He was arrested on 8 August 2019 by the [[FBI]]'s [[Las Vegas Joint Terrorism Task Force]] and pleaded guilty in February 2020 to federal charges in the [[District of Nevada]]. He was sentenced to two years in federal prison on 13 November 2020 by U.S. District Judge [[James Mahan]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Background and FKD Contact
|
||||
|
||||
Climo first made contact with FKD members through encrypted internet communications in late 2017, predating the formal founding of the organization in October 2018 and suggesting early involvement with the proto-FKD online milieu. The FBI began investigating him in April 2019 after receiving intelligence about his encrypted chats with FKD members. The investigation used undercover agents posing as fellow extremists and at least one confidential informant to document Climo's operational planning.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
Climo's target list was specific and geographic. He spoke of wanting to firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue, described a scenario in which others would shoot people exiting the building as he lit the incendiary device, and compiled a journal with sketches depicting gunmen attacking an LGBTQ bar. The target list also included a fast food restaurant and a Las Vegas office of the [[Anti-Defamation League]]. In October 2017, before formal FKD communications, Climo had already attempted to recruit a homeless person to conduct surveillance on a synagogue.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### FBI Operation and Arrest
|
||||
|
||||
On 8 August 2019, FBI agents searched Climo's Las Vegas home and found bomb components and two rifles, consistent with the planning documented in his communications. He was charged with one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, specifically characterized as the component parts of a destructive device under federal explosives law. The framing of the charge around firearm possession rather than terrorism-specific statutes was consistent with the Department of Justice's prosecution strategy for FKD-adjacent cases in that period: the same approach was used in the contemporaneous [[Jarrett William Smith]] prosecution in Kansas.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
U.S. Attorney [[Nicholas A. Trutanich]] for the District of Nevada described the investigation in a press release as protecting Las Vegas's faith-based and LGBTQ communities from hate-motivated violence.
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|
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### Guilty Plea and Sentence
|
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|
||||
Climo pleaded guilty in February 2020. His sentencing on 13 November 2020 drew attention because prosecutors had recommended 30 months, consistent with the Smith case, but Judge Mahan sentenced Climo to 24 months. He also received six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring to follow his release. Climo apologized at sentencing. No terrorism enhancement was applied.[^1]
|
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|
||||
The case was one of two documented US prosecutions arising from FKD membership in 2019, alongside Smith's. The absence of a terrorism enhancement in both cases distinguished them from later prosecutions of [[Atomwaffen Division|AWD]] and [[764 Network|764]] members, where enhanced charges (including the first-ever material-support terrorism count against a 764 member in 2025) became the prosecutorial standard.
|
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|
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### Footnotes
|
||||
|
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Nev. "Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Bomb-Making Components." February 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-pleads-guilty-possession-bomb-making-components; Las Vegas Sun. "White supremacist sentenced to 2 years in bomb plot case." November 13, 2020. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/11/13/white-supremacist-sentenced-to-2-years-in-bomb-plo/
|
||||
[^2]: Times of Israel. "White supremacist jailed for 2 years over plot to bomb Las Vegas synagogue." November 2020. https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-supremacist-jailed-for-2-years-over-plot-to-bomb-las-vegas-synagogue-adl/; Washington Blade. "Nevada man guilty in plot to shoot up LGBTQ bar." February 2020. https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/02/11/nevada-man-guilty-in-plot-to-shoot-up-lgbtq-bar/
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
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tags:
|
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- Person
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- GreggyCult
|
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- ChildExploitation
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- CSAM
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- FederalCase
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- California
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- USA
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created: 2026-05-22
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updated: 2026-05-22
|
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summary: "David Brilhante, aliases 'Knight' and 'CS:GO,' was a San Diego, California leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants."
|
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born: 1997
|
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location: "San Diego, California"
|
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---
|
||||
|
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[[David Brilhante]], aliases "Knight" and "CS:GO," is a resident of [[San Diego, California]] and a named leader of [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the Cult of Greg), the online child exploitation network that operated on [[Discord]] from approximately January 2020 through January 2021. He was born approximately 1997 and was 28 at the time of his December 2025 indictment.
|
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|
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### Federal Charges (United States v. Bermudez, 1:25-cr-00361)
|
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|
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A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] returned an indictment unsealed on December 2, 2025, charging Brilhante alongside [[Hector Bermudez]], [[Zachary Dosch]], [[Rumaldo Valdez]], and [[Camden Rodriguez]]. The case number is 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC). The 10-count indictment charged: engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]], conspiracy to produce child pornography, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, and conspiracy to communicate interstate threats. The alleged criminal conduct covered January 2020 through January 2021.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Greggy's Cult operated using coercion methods that directly informed the [[764 Network|764]] network's operational model. The group recruited minor victims through gaming platforms and social media, coerced them into producing [[CSAM]] on video, and blackmailed them with that material. [[NCITE]] tracked Greggy's Cult alongside [[CVLT]] and 764 as one of three connected precursor-successor networks accounting for 31 individuals publicly charged with federal crimes through December 2025.
|
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|
||||
No guilty plea or sentencing outcome for Brilhante was publicly reported as of May 2026.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
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[^1]: DOJ OPA. "Five Leaders of 'Greggy's Cult' Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-leaders-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet; United States v. Bermudez et al., 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC) (E.D.N.Y.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71984626/united-states-v-bermudez/
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
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tags:
|
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- Person
|
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- O9A
|
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- UK
|
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- TerroristConviction
|
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- Satanism
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- ViolentExtremism
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- London
|
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location: "Streatham, London, England"
|
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created: 2026-05-22
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updated: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Declan George-Candiani was a 26-year-old actor from Streatham convicted in October 2024 at the Old Bailey of two terrorism possession counts after being stopped at Stansted Airport, who told police he had developed an interest in the Order of Nine Angles after they found extreme right-wing material on his devices."
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---
|
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|
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Declan George-Candiani (born 9 September 1999), 26, of Streatham, London, was stopped at [[Stansted Airport]] on 13 August 2024 by officers from [[Counter Terrorism Command]] exercising Schedule 7 powers under the [[Terrorism Act 2000]]. His mobile phone was analysed at the stop, and he was arrested. A subsequent search of his home yielded an iPad, also seized. He was convicted at the [[Old Bailey]] on 3 October 2024, following a jury trial, of two counts of collecting material likely to be useful to a terrorist under section 58(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000. The jury acquitted him of two further counts of the same offence. He was sentenced on 28 November 2024 to 23 months' imprisonment, plus one year on licence, plus a 10-year terrorism notification requirement.[^1]
|
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|
||||
### Materials Found and O9A Connection
|
||||
|
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Examination of George-Candiani's iPhone and iPad revealed a cache of extreme right-wing material including manifestos of mass killers, documents advocating the use of serious violence to achieve white supremacist goals, and guides for committing lone-wolf attacks. In police interview, he attributed his downloading of the material to an interest in [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A), describing O9A to officers as a group advocating "traditional Satanism." He also told police that he had "made a pact with the devil" and was "possessed," a statement that attracted press characterisation of him as a self-described Satanist.[^2]
|
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|
||||
The materials specifically convicted on were "guides on how to commit 'lone wolf' attacks," categorised as information likely useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism.[^1]
|
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|
||||
### Schedule 7 Stop
|
||||
|
||||
George-Candiani was an actor by occupation. The stop at Stansted was a Schedule 7 examination, a non-arrest power that allows Counter Terrorism Policing to stop and search individuals at ports and airports for up to six hours without arrest. The phone analysis during that stop generated the grounds for arrest and the subsequent home search. His case is one of two O9A-adjacent UK cases in 2024-2025 (alongside [[Cameron Finnigan]]) that established the continued active enforcement posture of Counter Terrorism Command toward individuals with documented O9A interest, in the absence of O9A's own proscription.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Metropolitan Police. "Man convicted of terrorism offences after schedule 7 stop." https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-convicted-of-terrorism-offences-after-schedule-7-stop-501766; Metropolitan Police. "Man jailed for offences under the Terrorism Act." https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-offences-under-the-terrorism-act-503818; Counter Terrorism Policing. "Man convicted of terrorism offences after schedule 7 stop." https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/man-convicted-of-terrorism-offences-after-schedule-7-stop/
|
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|
||||
[^2]: LBC. "'Devil pact' satanist actor jailed for terror material." November 2024. https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/satanist-actor-jailed-for-23-months-right-wing-documents-5HjdNdF_2/; Yahoo News UK. "'Satanist' actor found with extreme right-wing material guilty of terror charges." October 2024. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/satanist-actor-found-extreme-wing-180625834.html; HS Today. "Self Proclaimed Satanist Convicted of Terrorism Offences After Questioning at London Airport." 2024. https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/self-proclaimed-satanist-convicted-of-terrorism-offences-after-questioning-at-london-airport/
|
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Devon Arthurs.md
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---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
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tags:
|
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- Person
|
||||
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Islam
|
||||
- Murder
|
||||
- Tampa
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
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updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Devon Arthurs was an Atomwaffen Division member who converted to Islam and in May 2017 murdered two fellow AWD members in their shared Tampa apartment, an act that directly triggered Brandon Russell's arrest and AWD's national exposure."
|
||||
born: 1999
|
||||
location: "Tampa, Florida"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Devon Arthurs]] was a member of [[Atomwaffen Division]] who converted to Islam, then on May 19, 2017 killed his two AWD roommates, [[Jeremy Himmelman]] and [[Andrew Oneschuk]], at the apartment they shared in Tampa, Florida with [[Brandon Russell]]. The killings and Arthurs's subsequent cooperation with law enforcement constituted the first major public exposure of AWD as an operational organization, resulted in Russell's arrest for possession of explosive materials, and triggered the sustained law enforcement attention that would disrupt the organization over the following years.
|
||||
|
||||
### Conversion and Departure from AWD
|
||||
|
||||
Arthurs had been a committed AWD member and a participant in the organization's accelerationist ideology before converting to Islam at some point in 2016 or early 2017. His conversion generated conflict within the apartment with Himmelman and Oneschuk, who remained committed neo-Nazis. Arthurs later told investigators that the two men had desecrated a Quran he kept in the apartment, and that he had also come to fear they would expose his prior AWD membership to others, a threat to his safety he believed required a preemptive response.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Murders and Hostage Standoff
|
||||
|
||||
On the afternoon of May 19, 2017, while Russell was away at a [[Florida National Guard]] training exercise, Arthurs shot and killed both Himmelman (22) and Oneschuk (18) inside the Tampa apartment. After the killings, rather than fleeing, Arthurs drove to a nearby smoke shop and held customers at gunpoint inside the store while he attempted to reach a religious leader by phone. He made statements to the hostages about wanting to speak with a Muslim contact and about the crimes he had committed.
|
||||
|
||||
Tampa police responded to the hostage situation and Arthurs surrendered peacefully after a standoff lasting approximately an hour. He was arrested without further violence.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Investigation, Russell's Exposure, and AWD Military Warnings
|
||||
|
||||
After Arthurs was taken into custody and began cooperating with investigators, Tampa police and the FBI searched the apartment. The search revealed explosive materials belonging to Russell, specifically precursor chemicals and components used in the manufacture of HMTD (hexamethylene triperoxide diamine). Investigators also recovered AWD propaganda materials, membership lists, and other organizational documents.
|
||||
|
||||
Russell returned from his National Guard training to find law enforcement at the apartment and was subsequently arrested on explosives charges. Arthurs's cooperation directly enabled this arrest and provided investigators with their first detailed inside look at AWD's structure, membership, and activities.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
During his police interrogation, Arthurs told detectives that Atomwaffen Division "had attracted U.S. military personnel as members and was aiming to recruit more." He specifically identified Russell as having joined the [[Florida Army National Guard]] with deliberate strategic intent, stating that Russell "joined specifically for the knowledge and the training, and he wants to use that training against the government." Russell served in Company C, 53rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, [[53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team]], based in Pinellas Park, Florida. Arthurs warned that AWD members "join the military specially to get training. To get access to equipment."[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Florida Guard Non-Response
|
||||
|
||||
The Florida Guard conducted a two-page summary investigation within three weeks of the Tampa murders. [[ProPublica]] and [[PBS Frontline]]'s 2018 investigation, based on a review of that document, found that it "contains no references to Arthurs's statements to authorities about other possible Atomwaffen members in the military" and showed "no evidence that the Guard had alerted officials in other military branches to the potential presence of Atomwaffen in their ranks." Russell had announced the creation of Atomwaffen Division on [[Iron March]] in October 2015, months before he enlisted in the Guard in February 2016; during the Guard's recruitment vetting, a radiation trefoil tattoo on his neck was documented but did not trigger further inquiry. The FBI declined repeated requests to discuss the case and what steps it took in response.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Legal Outcome
|
||||
|
||||
Arthurs pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to a lengthy prison term in Florida state court. His cooperation with federal investigators as part of plea negotiations produced information that fed into multiple subsequent federal prosecutions of AWD members.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "Armed and Dangerous." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-armed-and-dangerous
|
||||
[^2]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "An Atomwaffen Member Sketched a Map to Take the Neo-Nazis Down. What Path Officials Took Is a Mystery." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery; Tampa Bay Times. "How Did Florida National Guard Miss Soldier's Neo-Nazi Leanings?" 2017. https://www.tampabay.com/news/military/how-did-florida-national-guard-miss-soldiers-neo-nazi-leanings/2324930/
|
||||
[^3]: Tampa Bay Times. Coverage of Devon Arthurs sentencing. 2018.
|
||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni.md
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- TerrorgramCollective
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- Brazil
|
||||
- SaintsCulture
|
||||
- MassShooter
|
||||
born: 2006
|
||||
location: "Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||
summary: "Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni was a 16-year-old Brazilian who attacked two schools in Aracruz in November 2022, killing four, in an attack Terrorgram Collective leader Dallas Humber mentored and subsequently memorialized with saint cards."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] (born approximately 2006, [[Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil]]) was 16 when he attacked two schools in Aracruz on November 25, 2022, killing four people and wounding eleven. He wore military-style camouflage, a bulletproof vest, a skull mask associated with [[Atomwaffen Division]], and a homemade swastika armband, and had been active in online neo-Nazi accelerationist communities including [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels. In the prosecution of [[Dallas Humber]] in the [[Eastern District of California]], DOJ prosecutors documented that on or around October 23, 2022 - one month before the attack - Humber and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] had discussed in a secret Telegram chat a Brazilian contact planning "a racially motivated school attack in Brazil." Prosecutors attributed the Aracruz attack to Humber's guidance, and Humber subsequently created Terrorgram "saint cards" for Castiglioni and referred to him as "her kid." Castiglioni was sentenced to three years in juvenile detention - the maximum penalty available for minors under Brazilian law at the time of sentencing in December 2022.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Aracruz Attacks
|
||||
|
||||
On November 25, 2022, Castiglioni attacked [[Escola Estadual Primo Bitti]] first, then [[Escola Praia de Coqueiral]]. Four people were killed: student [[Selena Zagrillo]] (12), who was shot while hiding under a desk, teacher [[Maria da Penha Pereira de Melo Banhos]] (48), who was attempting to shield students, [[Cybelle Passos Bezerra Lara]] (45), and [[Flavia Amoss Merçon Leonardo]] (38). Eleven additional people were wounded.
|
||||
|
||||
Castiglioni had been active on social media displaying admiration for Nazi ideology and claimed to have begun planning the attack in 2019 following a period of bullying, placing his radicalization in the same post-[[2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings|Christchurch]] window as many other Terrorgram-linked cases. No separate written manifesto was publicly confirmed; his documented online activity constituted his ideological record.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Terrorgram Connection
|
||||
|
||||
The Humber prosecution established the most direct documented link between Terrorgram and the Aracruz attack. Court documents confirmed that on approximately October 23, 2022, Humber and Allison discussed a Brazilian contact's plans in a secret Telegram channel. Humber's subsequent creation of saint cards for Castiglioni - and her characterization of him as "her kid" - indicates a relationship extending beyond passive inspiration to something closer to the mentorship dynamic she had also maintained with prospective attackers in other countries.
|
||||
|
||||
The Aracruz attack is listed in Humber's sentencing documents as the most lethal Terrorgram-attributed attack to that point. It is also cited explicitly in [[Matthew Althorpe]]'s Canadian sentencing (March 27, 2026) as one of the attacks his publications helped inspire.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Brazilian Legal Outcome
|
||||
|
||||
Brazilian courts sentenced Castiglioni to three years in juvenile detention in December 2022, representing the maximum penalty available under Brazilian law for a minor at the time. He completed the sentence and was placed on supervised release by November 2025.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder." December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and; Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html
|
||||
[^2]: CBS News. "Teen suspect in Brazil school shootings wore swastika armband, police say." November 2022. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-suspect-brazil-school-shootings-4-killed-wore-swastika-police-say/
|
||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gediminas Beržinskas.md
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- FeuerkriegDivision
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- Lithuania
|
||||
- TerroristConviction
|
||||
- Europe
|
||||
location: "Vilnius, Lithuania"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Gediminas Beržinskas was a Lithuanian Feuerkrieg Division member convicted by Vilnius Regional Court in September 2020 for planting a homemade explosive device outside a Vilnius Western Union office in October 2019, representing one of the first European criminal convictions of an FKD member."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Gediminas Beržinskas was a Lithuanian national and [[Feuerkrieg Division]] (FKD) member who planted a homemade explosive device outside a [[Western Union]] office in [[Vilnius]] on 14 October 2019 and spray-painted "FK Division," "Siege," and a swastika on the building's wall on 6 October 2019. He was detained on 15 October 2019, convicted by [[Vilnius Regional Court]], and sentenced to a net approximately 18 further months of custody under an expedited procedure that reduced the underlying term by one-third.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Vilnius Attack
|
||||
|
||||
Beržinskas's two acts of political violence in Vilnius in October 2019 were ideologically consistent with [[Siege Culture]] and FKD's propaganda: the spray-painted messaging explicitly invoked both FKD's name and James Mason's [[Siege]], the foundational accelerationist text that underpins FKD's ideology. The bomb placement was an act of domestic terrorism aimed at financial infrastructure, consistent with the [[Atomwaffen Division]] accelerationist playbook of attacking institutional targets to precipitate societal collapse.
|
||||
|
||||
Lithuanian law enforcement found bomb-making materials and a firearm in Beržinskas's possession at the time of his detention. Vilnius Regional Court convicted him of plotting a terror act, illegal possession of explosives and a firearm, and attempting to commit a crime. The case was examined under an expedited procedure.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### UK Connection
|
||||
|
||||
During the period of Beržinskas's attack planning, he was in contact with [[Paul Dunleavy]], a 17-year-old FKD member from [[Rugby]], Warwickshire, who provided him and other FKD members with firearm-conversion manuals and device-building guidance. Dunleavy's provision of that guidance was prosecuted in the United Kingdom as preparation for acts of terrorism. Dunleavy's November 2020 sentencing at [[Birmingham Crown Court]] specifically referenced the convictions in Lithuania, Germany, and the United States of three FKD members to whom Dunleavy had given assistance. British authorities separately noted the cross-border causal chain in public statements.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
Beržinskas's case therefore sits at the junction of two national prosecutions: the first-instance conviction in Lithuania and the downstream conviction of his UK-based adviser. The cases represent the most clearly documented instance of transnational criminal causation within the FKD network's documented history.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and Television). "Lithuanian neo-Nazi receives 28-month sentence for attempting terror attack." September 2020. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1235208/lithuanian-neo-nazi-receives-28-month-sentence-for-attempting-terror-attack; LRT. "Neo-Nazi admits to plotting terror attacks in Lithuanian capital." 2020. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1222876/neo-nazi-admits-to-plotting-terror-attacks-in-lithuanian-capital
|
||||
[^2]: LRT. "Britain sentences teenager who 'advised' Lithuanian neo-Nazi terrorist." 2021. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1274096/britain-sentences-teenager-who-advised-lithuanian-neo-nazi-terrorist; Express and Star. "Boy, 17, sentenced to detention for preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism." November 6, 2020. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/11/06/boy-17-sentenced-to-detention-for-preparing-neo-nazi-acts-of-terrorism/
|
||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Hector Bermudez.md
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- GreggyCult
|
||||
- ChildExploitation
|
||||
- CSAM
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
- NewYork
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Hector Bermudez, aliases 'Fiasco,' 'Rogue,' and 'Diablo,' was a Queens, New York leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants."
|
||||
born: 1996
|
||||
location: "Queens, New York"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Hector Bermudez]], aliases "Fiasco," "Rogue," and "Diablo," is a resident of [[Queens, New York]] and a named leader of [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the Cult of Greg), the online child exploitation network that operated on [[Discord]] from approximately January 2020 through January 2021. He was born approximately 1996 and was 29 at the time of his December 2025 indictment.
|
||||
|
||||
### Greggy's Cult and the 764 Lineage
|
||||
|
||||
Greggy's Cult operated using methods that would define the [[764 Network|764]] network: recruiting minor victims through gaming platforms and social media, coercing them into producing [[CSAM]], and blackmailing victims with the material to compel ongoing compliance including self-harm. [[NCITE]] tracked Greggy's Cult alongside [[CVLT]] and 764 as three connected networks accounting for 31 individuals publicly charged with federal crimes through December 2025. Prominent members of 764 and related successor networks were also members of Greggy's Cult, per the DOJ's December 2025 press release.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Federal Charges (United States v. Bermudez, 1:25-cr-00361)
|
||||
|
||||
A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] returned an indictment unsealed on December 2, 2025, charging Bermudez alongside four co-defendants: [[Zachary Dosch]] (26, Albuquerque, New Mexico), [[Rumaldo Valdez]] (22, Wahiawa, Hawaii), [[David Brilhante]] (28, San Diego, California), and [[Camden Rodriguez]] (22, Longmont, Colorado). The case number is 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC).[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
The 10-count indictment charged: engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, conspiracy to produce child pornography, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, and conspiracy to communicate interstate threats. The alleged criminal conduct covered January 2020 through January 2021.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
No guilty plea or sentencing outcome for Bermudez was publicly reported as of May 2026.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: DOJ OPA. "Five Leaders of 'Greggy's Cult' Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-leaders-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet; NCITE. "Prosecuting 764: An Examination of Federal and State Charges." December 2025. https://www.unomaha.edu/ncite/news/2025/12/764-landing-page.php
|
||||
[^2]: United States v. Bermudez et al., 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC) (E.D.N.Y.), CourtListener. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71984626/united-states-v-bermudez/; DOJ USAO-EDNY. "Five Members of Greggy's Cult Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/five-members-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet
|
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|||
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|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Swatting
|
||||
- Propaganda
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
- Texas
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||
summary: "John Cameron Denton, known online as 'Rape,' was Atomwaffen Division's propaganda chief and the architect of a large-scale swatting campaign targeting journalists and civil rights organizations, convicted in federal court and sentenced to 41 months."
|
||||
location: "Texas"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[John Cameron Denton]], known online as "Rape" and under additional aliases including "Torque," was [[Atomwaffen Division]]'s primary propaganda organizer and the architect of a large-scale swatting campaign that targeted journalists and civil rights organizations who had reported on or tracked AWD's activities. He was arrested by the FBI and convicted in federal court, receiving a 41-month sentence.
|
||||
|
||||
### AWD Propaganda Role
|
||||
|
||||
Denton served as a key organizer of AWD's propaganda and online operations from his base in Texas. In that role he coordinated the production and distribution of AWD's recruitment materials, maintained the network's online presence across multiple platforms, and helped manage the organization's internal communications infrastructure. His work made AWD's propaganda some of the most recognizable neo-Nazi extremist content circulating on the early-to-mid 2010s internet, with its distinctive skull mask aesthetic and accelerationist messaging.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Swatting Campaign
|
||||
|
||||
Beginning in late 2018 and continuing into 2019, Denton organized and executed a coordinated swatting campaign targeting individuals and organizations he and other AWD members viewed as enemies. Documented targets included a Virginia university, a former U.S. Cabinet member, a historic Black church outside Washington, D.C., an Islamic Center in Arlington, Texas, and journalists and civil rights organizations that monitored extremist activity. Federal prosecutors described it as "the most widespread swatting conspiracy in the country" known to law enforcement. Swatting - the practice of making false emergency reports to law enforcement to trigger armed police responses at a target's location - constitutes a serious felony and carries the risk of lethal violence against victims; several people in the United States have been killed by police in swatting incidents.
|
||||
|
||||
Denton's campaign involved directing other AWD members to make false reports about specific targets, coordinating the timing and choice of victims, and using VoIP services and other tools to disguise the origin of the calls. The campaign represented AWD's use of harassment and intimidation as an organizational tactic alongside its advocacy for direct violence.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Arrest and Conviction
|
||||
|
||||
The FBI investigated Denton's swatting operation and he was arrested in a raid on his home in Conroe, Texas, on February 26, 2020. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in the Eastern District of Virginia in May 2021 to 41 months in federal prison, with a hate crime enhancement applied. Denton expressed no remorse at sentencing. The case was among the first federal convictions of an AWD member following [[Brandon Russell]]'s 2018 explosives conviction and was part of the sustained law enforcement campaign that dismantled AWD's leadership between 2018 and 2022.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "Armed and Dangerous." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-armed-and-dangerous
|
||||
[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. Federal conviction and sentencing records for John Cameron Denton.
|
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Cartwright II.md
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|||
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|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
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tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- IronMarch
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Moderator
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- Navy
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- Maryland
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "John Cartwright II, username 'Blood and Iron,' was an Iron March moderator who joined the forum in September 2011 at its founding and was identified through the 2019 database leak as a U.S. Navy member residing in Millersville, Maryland."
|
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location: "Millersville, Maryland"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[John Cartwright II]], operating under the username "Blood and Iron," was a moderator of the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist web forum and a member of the [[United States Navy]] identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak.
|
||||
|
||||
### Forum Role and Timeline
|
||||
|
||||
Cartwright joined Iron March in September 2011, immediately following the forum's launch on ironmarch.org, making him one of the earliest members of the permanent community. His early arrival gave him extensive interaction with [[Alisher Mukhitdinov]] ("Alexander Slavros") and the forum's core organizers across the full span of the platform's operation.
|
||||
|
||||
His moderator status placed him within the administrative tier that included [[Benjamin Raymond]], co-founder of [[National Action]], and other senior figures whose presence shaped the forum's content policies and community norms. As a moderator, Cartwright had administrative access to the forum's backend functions beyond those available to regular users.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Database records and private message content from the leaked SQL dump established his identity. He participated in a Skype group organized by [[Jacob Rutledge]] (username "American Blackshirt"), an Indianapolis-based Iron March organizer, where he offered to contribute articles on the Occupy movement and on "shabby modern art" as topics of interest.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Identification
|
||||
|
||||
The [[Iron March Dossiers]] project identified Cartwright in a post published March 13, 2020. The identification used the combination of his registered email address, self-disclosed personal details in private messages, and cross-referenced social media footprints accumulated over his years of Iron March activity. At the time of identification, he was reported to be a U.S. Navy member living in Millersville, Maryland. No criminal charges followed the identification, and no public record confirms any Navy investigation or administrative action in his case.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Iron March Dossiers. "John Cartwright II, aka Blood and Iron, Moderator of Neo-Nazi Forum Iron March." March 13, 2020. https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2020/03/13/john-cartwright-ii-moderator-of-neo-nazi-forum-iron-march/; Anarchist Federation. "John Cartwright II, aka Blood and Iron, Moderator of Neo-Nazi Forum Iron March." https://www.anarchistfederation.net/john-cartwright-ii-aka-blood-and-iron-moderator-of-neo-nazi-forum-iron-march/
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Intimidation
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
- Washington
|
||||
- Russia
|
||||
- RussianImperialMovement
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Kaleb Cole was a Washington state-based Atomwaffen Division leader who received paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement in St. Petersburg in 2018, ran a coordinated intimidation campaign against journalists and activists, and was convicted of civil rights conspiracy and sentenced to 84 months in federal prison."
|
||||
location: "Washington State"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Kaleb Cole]] was a Washington state-based [[Atomwaffen Division]] leader who rose to prominence within the organization following [[Brandon Russell]]'s 2018 imprisonment and ran a sustained intimidation campaign targeting journalists, civil rights workers, and others who reported on or monitored AWD's activities. In 2018 he traveled to [[Russia]] for paramilitary training with the [[Russian Imperial Movement]] at their [[Partizan]] camp in [[St. Petersburg]]. He was convicted in federal court of civil rights conspiracy charges and sentenced to 84 months (seven years) in federal prison.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Rise Within AWD
|
||||
|
||||
Cole became one of AWD's most operationally active members in the period after Russell's initial incarceration. He worked to maintain the organization's cohesion and continued its recruitment and propaganda activities while Russell was imprisoned. His role in AWD's operations placed him at the center of the organization's internal communications and gave him visibility into the network's full scope of activities.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Russia Training Trip (2018)
|
||||
|
||||
In 2018, Cole traveled to Europe with fellow AWD member [[Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh]] of Olympia, Washington, on a trip that included passage through [[Ukraine]] via the Donbas green corridor into Russia, followed by attendance at the Russian Imperial Movement's Partizan paramilitary training facility in St. Petersburg. The training covered firearms, explosives, squad movement, and tactical operations. Former Russian military instructors ran the program. The same facility had trained members of the [[Nordic Resistance Movement]] from [[Sweden]] in 2016, who subsequently carried out bombings in Gothenburg in 2017, the case that formed the basis for the U.S. State Department's 2020 designation of RIM as an SDGT entity.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
After completing Partizan training, Cole and Bruce-Umbaugh traveled back through Ukraine into Poland and documented the trip with a photograph at [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp. The Russia trip is referenced in federal prosecution materials from both Cole's case (2:20-cr-00032, [[Western District of Washington]]) and Bruce-Umbaugh's case (5:19-cr-00130, [[Northern District of Texas]]), and is documented in investigative reporting on AWD's transnational connections.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
The RIM training represents the most documented instance of a senior AWD leader receiving in-person foreign paramilitary training from an organization later designated a terrorist entity by the U.S. government. The [[CTC West Point]] analysis of the skull-mask neo-fascist network notes that RIM also trained additional U.S. nationals affiliated with AWD at Partizan in approximately 2020, beyond the 2018 Cole/Bruce-Umbaugh trip.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### Intimidation Campaign
|
||||
|
||||
Following the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]], [[Cameron Shea]] created an encrypted [[Wire]] messaging group named [[Operation Erste Saule]] (German: "First Pillar") to coordinate a campaign of harassment and intimidation against journalists and civil rights workers who had reported on AWD. Cole participated in that campaign's physical execution: he and associates mailed threatening posters to the homes of Jewish activists and journalists of color, bearing swastikas, skulls, and phrases including "We know where you live" and "Death to Pigs"; the materials were also physically affixed to victims' homes and property. The campaign combined doxxing with the implicit threat of violence against AWD critics.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Federal Investigation and Conviction
|
||||
|
||||
The FBI investigated Cole's intimidation operations. He was arrested in 2020 as part of the broader federal crackdown on AWD leadership that also ensnared [[John Cameron Denton]], [[Ethan Phelan Melzer]], and others during that period.
|
||||
|
||||
Cole was convicted by a federal jury in the Western District of Washington on all five counts: conspiracy to commit hate crimes, mailing threatening communications, cyberstalking (two counts), and a fifth related count. He was sentenced to 84 months (seven years) in federal prison. The case drew national attention in 2021 when motion-to-suppress filings revealed that [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]], who had infiltrated AWD as a senior leader, had been an FBI informant throughout his entire tenure inside the organization.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Member of Violent Extremist Group Sentenced to 84 Months for Civil Rights Conspiracy." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-violent-extremist-group-sentenced-84-months-civil-rights-conspiracy
|
||||
[^2]: Malcontent News. "Washington's Defunct Atomwaffen Division had Deep Ties to the Terrorist Org, Russia Imperialist Movement." July 4, 2022. https://malcontentment.com/washingtons-defunct-atomwaffen-division-had-deep-ties-to-the-terrorist-org-russia-imperialist-movement/; Cipher Brief. "Examining Atomwaffen Division's Transnational Linkages." https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/examining-atomwaffen-divisions-transnational-linkages
|
||||
[^3]: GovInfo. USA v. Bruce-Umbaugh, 5:19-cr-00130 (N.D. Tex.). https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130-0
|
||||
[^4]: CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
|
||||
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- LawEnforcement
|
||||
- CVLT
|
||||
- ChildExploitation
|
||||
- Iowa
|
||||
- ISUPD
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Kami Feld is an Iowa State University Police Department officer whose 2020 investigation of a student blackmail complaint surfaced the identity of CVLT's fourth core member, completing the federal case that led to indictments in January 2025."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Kami Feld]] is an officer with the [[Iowa State University Police Department]] (ISUPD) whose independent investigative work in 2020-2021 identified [[Clint Borge]], the previously unknown fourth core leader of [[CVLT]], completing the information picture that [[Homeland Security Investigations]] needed to seek a federal indictment against all four defendants.
|
||||
|
||||
### Iowa State Investigation
|
||||
|
||||
In November 2020, an Iowa State University freshman approached ISUPD to report that she was being blackmailed with sexual images taken of her when she was 16. A patrol officer initially interviewed the victim, and Officer Kami Feld took up the investigative work.
|
||||
|
||||
Feld issued subpoenas to electronic service providers including Google, PayPal, Venmo, Instagram, and Facebook. The subpoena responses returned IP activity across four different locations, including [[Hawaii]], [[Oregon]], and [[California]]. Feld also issued a search warrant.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
At this point, Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles was already investigating CVLT and had identified three of the four core leaders. The fourth was known only by the Discord alias "Whoops." Feld's subpoena results, combined with a digital wallet account associated with the target's IP activity, returned an address: 4 Goldfield Road, Honolulu, Hawaii. Feld ran a verification search and found the address linked to several questionable businesses with no verifiable physical location. Further investigation traced the activity not to Honolulu but to [[Pahoa, Hawaii]] on the Big Island, establishing the real-world identity as [[Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Feld's investigation connected to the existing HSI case. Once HSI confirmed the Borge identification, investigators proceeded to the January 17, 2025 grand jury indictment. Borge, [[Collin Walker]], [[Kaleb Merritt]], and [[Rohan Rane]] were indicted in [[United States v. Rane et al. (2-25-cr-00040)|United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040]], [[Central District of California]].[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Recognition
|
||||
|
||||
Iowa State University and ISUPD credited the original student complainant and Feld's investigative work publicly in February 2025, when the indictment was unsealed. Multiple news accounts identified the Iowa State case as the investigative link that broke open the fourth identification and allowed the federal prosecution to proceed against the full leadership of the enterprise.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Iowa State Daily. "How ISUPD uncovered a Neo-Nazi sexual predator ring." 2025. https://iowastatedaily.com/335620/news/how-the-isupd-uncovered-a-neo-nazi-sexual-predator-ring/; Iowa State University News Service. "A call for help leads ISU Police to sexual predator, international investigation." February 12, 2025. https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2025/02/12/isu-police-exploitation; Iowa State Daily. "Student report to ISUPD leads to charges for neo-Nazis." 2025. https://iowastatedaily.com/310219/news/student-report-to-isupd-leads-to-neo-nazi-charges/
|
||||
[^2]: DOJ OPA. "Four Members of Online Neo-Nazi Group that Exploited Minors Charged with Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material." February 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-members-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-minors-charged-producing-child-sexual-abuse
|
||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Liam Collins (AWD).md
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||
- IronMarch
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
- NorthCarolina
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- PowerGridConspiracy
|
||||
born: 1999
|
||||
location: "Camp Lejeune, North Carolina"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Liam Collins was a former U.S. Marine and Iron March leader who co-conspired with other AWD-adjacent Iron March members to attack power infrastructure in the northwestern United States, and was sentenced to 10 years in the Eastern District of North Carolina in July 2024."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Liam Collins was a former United States Marine who served at [[Camp Lejeune]], North Carolina, and a leader on the [[Iron March]] neo-Nazi forum. After leaving the Marines, Collins organized with [[Paul James Kryscuk]], [[Jordan Duncan]] (a fellow former Marine), [[Joseph Maurino]] (a New Jersey National Guardsman), and [[Justin Wade Hermanson]] in an accelerationist network that planned attacks on power grid infrastructure in the northwestern United States. The group's propaganda video featured participants in [[Atomwaffen Division]] skull masks. Collins was convicted in the [[Eastern District of North Carolina]] and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on July 25, 2024.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Iron March and AWD Connection
|
||||
|
||||
Collins and Kryscuk met through Iron March, the neo-fascist forum that served as AWD's founding platform, and used the forum to recruit additional members before it closed in late 2017. Their group is described by prosecutors as having "ties to racially motivated violent extremists" including AWD and using the same iconography, including AWD skull masks during training sessions and a "black sun" symbol in propaganda videos. Whether Collins was a formal AWD member is not confirmed in court documents; the government's characterization is that the group was Iron March-derived and AWD-adjacent rather than AWD-structured.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Conspiracy
|
||||
|
||||
From approximately 2017 to 2020, Collins's network communicated through encrypted messaging applications, conducted paramilitary training in the desert near [[Boise, Idaho]], and planned attacks on power grid components in Idaho and surrounding states. The group researched a prior power substation attack (executed by an unknown group) as a model. In October 2020, federal agents found a handwritten list in Kryscuk's possession identifying approximately a dozen intersections and locations in the Pacific Northwest containing power grid infrastructure. Collins allegedly stole military gear during his Marine service for use in the plot; Duncan shared a military-derived library containing information on firearms, explosives, and nerve toxins.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
Joseph Maurino, then a New Jersey Army National Guard infantryman, supplied untraceable "ghost guns" and silencers to other network members, according to the superseding indictment. Maurino communicated via text messages recovered by the FBI in which he offered an "untraceable Glock" for $600.
|
||||
|
||||
### Charges and Sentencing
|
||||
|
||||
The five defendants received a third superseding indictment in the Eastern District of North Carolina in August 2021 that added a charge of conspiracy to damage the property of a United States energy facility under 18 U.S.C. § 1366. Their sentences, imposed in July and October 2024, were:[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
Liam Collins: 120 months (10 years), aiding and abetting interstate transportation of unregistered firearms.
|
||||
Jordan Duncan: 84 months (7 years), manufacturing a short-barrel rifle in violation of the National Firearms Act.
|
||||
Paul James Kryscuk: 78 months (6.5 years), conspiracy to damage an energy facility.
|
||||
Joseph Maurino: 21 months, conspiracy to manufacture firearms.
|
||||
Justin Wade Hermanson: 21 months, conspiracy to manufacture firearms.
|
||||
|
||||
### Military Background of Defendants
|
||||
|
||||
Collins and Duncan were both former Marine infantrymen previously assigned to Camp Lejeune. Maurino was an active National Guardsman at the time of his offense. The combination of Marine training (Collins and Duncan) and National Guard access to military equipment (Maurino) in a single conspiracy network exemplifies the type of military-skills-to-extremist-network pipeline that the 2021 [[DoD Extremism Stand-Down (2021)|Defense Department stand-down]] sought to address.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDNC. "Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy Sentenced in Connection with Plot to Destroy Energy Facilities." July 25, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/defendants-ties-white-supremacy-sentenced-connection-plot-destroy-energy-facilities
|
||||
|
||||
[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDNC. "Group With Ties to Racially Motivated Violent Extremists Including Two Former Marines Facing Additional Charge of Targeting Energy Facilities." August 2021. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/group-ties-racially-motivated-violent-extremists-including-two-former-marines-facing
|
||||
|
||||
[^3]: Military.com. "Neo-Nazi Plot to Attack Power Grid Leads to Prison Sentences for 2 Former Camp Lejeune Marines." July 26, 2024. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/07/26/2-former-marines-get-prison-sentences-neo-nazi-plot-attack-power-grid-us-northwest.html; Military.com. "Marine Veteran Connected to Neo-Nazi Power Grid Attack Plot Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison." October 29, 2024. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/29/marine-veteran-connected-neo-nazi-power-grid-attack-plot-sentenced-7-years-prison.html
|
||||
|
||||
[^4]: Stars and Stripes. "Marine Veteran Pleads Guilty in Neo-Nazi Plot to Damage Power Grid." June 25, 2024. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-06-25/nazi-iron-march-firearms-plot-guilty-14291621.html
|
||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Luca Benincasa.md
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- FeuerkriegDivision
|
||||
- O9A
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- UK
|
||||
- Wales
|
||||
- TerroristConviction
|
||||
- CSAM
|
||||
- UKTerrorism
|
||||
born: 2002
|
||||
location: "Cardiff, Wales"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Luca Benincasa was a Cardiff neo-Nazi sentenced to nine years and three months at Winchester Crown Court in January 2023, becoming the first person convicted under the UK proscription of Feuerkrieg Division for membership in a proscribed organization and possession of bomb-making materials."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Luca Benincasa, 20, of [[Cardiff]], specifically the [[Whitchurch, Cardiff|Whitchurch]] area, was the first person convicted in the United Kingdom of belonging to [[Feuerkrieg Division]] following its proscription under [[The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020]] (SI 2020/743) on 17 July 2020. He pleaded guilty at [[Winchester Crown Court]] on 15 July 2022 and was sentenced on 26 January 2023 by Judge [[Jane Miller KC]] to nine years and three months in a young offenders institution.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Arrest and Searches
|
||||
|
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Counter-terrorism police raided both of Benincasa's separated parents' respective homes in [[Cardiff]] in January 2022. The searches produced a tactical vest, camouflage clothing, an [[SS]] officer's dagger and hat, a Nazi Party armband, masks, and a large quantity of white supremacist literature. Additionally, his digital devices contained bomb-making instructions and other material classified as information likely to be useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Benincasa had served as a recruiter and described himself as a "prominent member" of FKD. He was identified as a key figure in FKD's UK operations in the period after the organization's reconstitution on [[Telegram]] in May 2021.
|
||||
|
||||
### Charges and Plea
|
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|
||||
At Winchester Crown Court, Benincasa entered guilty pleas to:
|
||||
|
||||
- one count of membership of a proscribed organization (the Feuerkrieg Division, proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000)
|
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- four counts of collecting or possessing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism (Terrorism Act 2000, s. 58), covering bomb-making instructions, on or before 1 February 2022
|
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|
||||
In a subsequent hearing, he also pleaded guilty to:
|
||||
|
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- three counts of possessing indecent images of children (ages 4 to 7)
|
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- one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image
|
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- one count of possessing a prohibited image of a child
|
||||
|
||||
The CSAM and terrorism charges were prosecuted together, following the pattern documented in multiple [[764 Network|764]] and FKD cases in which CSAM possession coincides with and reinforces violent accelerationist activity.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Sentence
|
||||
|
||||
Judge Miller KC imposed a total sentence of nine years and three months: five years and seven months for the terrorism offences, a consecutive eight months for the CSAM offences, plus a three-year extended licence on the terrorism counts. The sentence was to be served in a young offenders institution. Miller KC told Benincasa: "By 1st February 2022 you were calling yourself the UK cell leader of FKD and one of its recruiters," and concluded: "You were clearly a prominent member of the organisation." She described Benincasa as presenting a "serious risk" to the public.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
The nine-year sentence was the longest imposed on any FKD-connected defendant in the UK to that point, exceeding [[Luke Hunter]]'s four-year-and-two-month term (2020), the Cornwall teenager's 24-month rehabilitation order (2021), and [[Paul Dunleavy]]'s five-and-a-half-year term (2020).
|
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|
||||
Press coverage of the case, including ITV News Wales and Tell MAMA reporting, described Benincasa as a "prominent ONA member." Whether the published sentencing remarks specifically use that language has not been independently verified from the primary text and constitutes an open thread.
|
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|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Tell MAMA UK. "Neo-Nazi Luca Benincasa jailed for terrorism offences and child abuse images." January 2023. https://tellmamauk.org/neo-nazi-luca-benincasa-jailed-for-terrorism-offences-and-child-abuse-images/; ITV News Wales. "Neo-Nazi, 20, from Cardiff jailed for being member of far-right terror group." January 26, 2023. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-01-26/dangerous-neo-nazi-jailed-for-being-a-member-of-far-right-terror-group; Nation.cymru. "Cardiff man becomes first person convicted of belonging to neo-Nazi Feuerkrieg Division." https://nation.cymru/news/cardiff-man-becomes-first-person-convicted-of-belonging-to-neo-nazi-feuerkrieg-division/
|
||||
[^2]: Counter Extremism Project. "Feuerkrieg Division." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/feuerkrieg-division
|
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- TerrorgramCollective
|
||||
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- Canada
|
||||
- TerroristConviction
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||
summary: "Matthew Althorpe is a Canadian co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who previously served as an Atomwaffen Division propagandist, co-authored its three major publications, and was sentenced to 20 years in Canadian federal prison in March 2026."
|
||||
born: 1996
|
||||
location: "Niagara, Ontario, Canada"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Matthew Althorpe]] (born approximately 1996, Niagara region, [[Ontario]], Canada) co-founded the [[Terrorgram Collective]] alongside Slovak co-founder [[Pavol Beňadik]] in the summer of 2019 after serving as a propagandist for [[Atomwaffen Division]] from approximately 2018. He co-authored Terrorgram's three major zine-format publications and co-ran its Telegram channels until his arrest on December 8, 2023. On March 27, 2026, Ontario Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly sentenced him to 20 years in Canadian federal prison (parole-eligible at 10 years) following his guilty plea to three terrorism charges, finding that his propaganda had directly inspired at least six attacks including the [[Juraj Krajčík|October 2022 Bratislava shooting]] and a 2024 mosque stabbing in Turkey.[^1][^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Background and AWD Connection
|
||||
|
||||
Before co-founding Terrorgram, Althorpe had been active within Atomwaffen Division's propaganda infrastructure from approximately 2018, producing accelerationist content in that context. He also had documented involvement with [[Active Club Canada]], the Canadian branch of the far-right physical fitness and organizing network founded by American white nationalist Robert Rundo. His pre-Terrorgram history placed him at the nexus of the post-AWD accelerationist diaspora that coalesced on Telegram following AWD's partial disruption by federal prosecutions and the deplatforming of platforms like [[Iron March]].
|
||||
|
||||
### Terrorgram Publications
|
||||
|
||||
Althorpe co-authored all three of Terrorgram's major publications as part of the collective's inner circle:
|
||||
|
||||
*Militant Accelerationism: A Collective Handbook* (136 pp., June 2021), framing terrorism as "the language of the unheard" and providing ideological and tactical guidance for lone-wolf attacks.
|
||||
|
||||
*Do It For The Gram: The Collected Writings of Terrorgram* (268 pp., December 2021), maintaining and extending the first publication's operational argument.
|
||||
|
||||
*The Hard Reset: A Terrorgram Production* (261 pp., July 2022), the network's most operationally specific work, with detailed instructions for attacks and critical infrastructure sabotage.
|
||||
|
||||
These publications became the Terrorgram Collective's most widely cited and distributed output, circulating through the broader accelerationist Telegram ecosystem and reaching individuals who had no prior direct AWD or Terrorgram connection.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Arrest and Prosecution
|
||||
|
||||
Althorpe was arrested on December 8, 2023 in Canada and charged with three terrorism offenses under the Criminal Code of Canada: facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity, and committing an indictable offense for a terrorist group. He pleaded guilty to all three charges.
|
||||
|
||||
On March 27, 2026, Ontario Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly sentenced Althorpe to 20 years in Canadian federal prison, with parole eligibility at 10 years. Justice Kelly found that Althorpe's publications had directly inspired at least six attacks, including the October 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar shooting by [[Juraj Krajčík]] and the August 2024 [[Arda Küçükyetim|Eskisehir mosque stabbing]] in Turkey. The [[Public Prosecution Service of Canada]] described the sentence as reflecting the severity of publishing propaganda that served as an operational guide for mass violence.[^1][^2]
|
||||
|
||||
The sentence made Althorpe one of the most heavily sentenced Terrorgram figures in any jurisdiction, behind only [[Dallas Humber]]'s 30-year U.S. federal sentence.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html
|
||||
[^2]: CBC News. "Niagara man sentenced for terrorism after guilty plea in Terrorgram Collective case." March 2026. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/niagara-matthew-althorpe-terrorism-9.7144637
|
||||
[^3]: ARC Research. "Terrorgram's Propaganda: An Overview of Publications Designed to Incite Accelerationist Terrorism Attacks." https://www.accresearch.org/accreports/terrorgrams-propaganda-an-overview-of-publications-designed-to-incite-accelerationist-terrorism-attacks
|
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|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- TerrorgramCollective
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
- Idaho
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Matthew Robert Allison is a Boise, Idaho DJ and Terrorgram Collective co-leader who served as the network's primary video producer under the alias 'BTC' (BanThisChannel), arrested September 2024 and facing 15 federal counts in the Eastern District of California with trial pending as of May 2026."
|
||||
born: 1987
|
||||
location: "Boise, Idaho"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Matthew Robert Allison (born approximately 1987, raised in [[Perris, California]], longtime resident of [[Boise, Idaho]]) co-led the [[Terrorgram Collective]] with [[Dallas Humber]] and was the network's primary video producer, creating approximately 120 videos over five years including the quasi-documentary "White Terror," which glorified more than 100 far-right killers as models for emulation. He operated under the alias "BTC" (short for BanThisChannel). He was arrested on September 5, 2024, in the same [[FBI]] operation that apprehended Humber, charged in case [[United States v. Humber|2:24-cr-00257]] in the [[Eastern District of California]] on 15 federal counts, and pleaded not guilty. His trial remained pending as of May 2026.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Early Life and Radicalization
|
||||
|
||||
Allison was the first of four children, grew up in Perris, California, and showed musical aptitude early. He turned down a college offer to follow a friend to [[Boise, Idaho]], where he spent 17 of the next 19 years. He worked a succession of low-wage service jobs (convenience stores, bakeries) while DJing electronic dance music sets on Saturday nights. Friends described him as gentle and socially inclusive; he maintained a long-term romantic relationship with a male coworker from approximately 2013 onward. His father, [[John Allison]], later refused cooperation with FBI investigators.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
Federal prosecutors stated that from approximately age 10, Allison had exhibited interest in graphic violent material, including beheadings. His documented radicalization path unfolded across three phases:
|
||||
|
||||
2018: Allison began posting content under the BanThisChannel name on [[YouTube]], initially featuring conservative political material (Tucker Carlson clips, similar fare). The content grew progressively more racist, homophobic, and antisemitic. YouTube removed him following a post of the [[Nazi Party]] anthem.
|
||||
|
||||
2020: Following a romantic breakup and his brother's imprisonment on drug charges, Allison left Idaho. He stayed briefly in Nevada caring for his brother's children, then six months with his father in Utah, where he reportedly spent most of his time on his computer. He asked his father for help launching a Nazi propaganda website; his father refused. He returned to Boise.
|
||||
|
||||
2021 onward: Allison migrated to [[Telegram]], where he operated with minimal platform enforcement for approximately five years. By December 2021, he had boasted that 50 of his channels had been banned; they consistently reappeared under modified names.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Content Production and Propaganda
|
||||
|
||||
Allison's documented video production for Terrorgram channels comprised approximately 120 videos. His video content complemented the publications that Humber and [[Matthew Althorpe]] had co-authored, providing audiovisual material to accompany the written propaganda. His two most significant works:
|
||||
|
||||
"Last Battle" (approximately 6 minutes): deployed white-victimhood framing through a montage of imagery depicting drag queens, immigrant arrivals, Black crime, interracial marriage, and an alleged "Jewish communist takeover."
|
||||
|
||||
"White Terror" (approximately 24 minutes): a quasi-documentary celebrating 105 individuals who had committed far-right terrorism, presenting them as a coherent tradition of resistance and providing narration, graphics, and archival material designed to frame their violence as heroic.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
Allison also produced a 51-second clip providing specific guidance on disabling electrical transmission lines, which was identified by prosecutors as a direct vector for infrastructure radicalization. [[Andrew Takhistov]] (East Brunswick, New Jersey), charged in July 2024 with soliciting the destruction of [[PSE&G]] substations, was documented as having watched Allison's electrical line sabotage video before planning his own attack.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
He distributed "trading card"-format hit lists featuring targets' home addresses and photographs of their residences, a production format shared with [[Noah Lamb]]'s "The List" work and the broader [[Saints Culture]] framework. He also distributed guides for producing napalm, thermite, chlorine gas, pipe bombs, and dirty bombs through the Terrorgram channel network.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
Following the October 2022 [[Bratislava]] shooting by [[Juraj Krajčík]], who killed two people at an LGBTQ+ bar, Krajčík was documented as having sent his manifesto to Allison before the attack. Prosecutors presented this as evidence of Allison's direct contact with an attacker in his network's radicalization pipeline.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Arrest Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
The FBI arrested Allison on September 5, 2024, at his Boise residence. Items found in his backpack at arrest included zip ties, duct tape, ammunition, a firearm, a knife, lockpicking equipment, two phones, and a thumbdrive. His apartment contained an assault rifle, two laptops, and a "go bag" stocked with $1,500 cash, a black balaclava, and skull masks associated with [[Atomwaffen Division]].
|
||||
|
||||
Investigators also recovered handwritten documents titled "Commit Homicide" and "Post-Mortem Disembowelment," which contained graphic written fantasies involving murder and sexual assault. Allison's defense team argued these were high school lyrics for a death metal band called "Putrid Flesh."[^1][^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Legal Proceedings
|
||||
|
||||
Allison was extradited from Idaho to California to face trial in the Eastern District of California before U.S. District Judge [[Dena Coggins]]. He pleaded not guilty to all 15 counts. Against the advice of defense counsel, he granted two jailhouse interviews while awaiting trial, characterizing himself as a video "artist" and asserting that his work was protected by the [[First Amendment]]. He called the indictment "offensive" and denied that he had incited violence, describing himself as a chat participant rather than an organizational leader.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
The 15 counts charged against Allison are identical to those charged against Humber: one count of conspiracy; four counts of soliciting hate crimes; three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials; three counts of doxing federal officials; one count of threatening communications; two counts of distributing bombmaking instructions; and one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists under [[18 U.S.C. § 2339A]]. Combined maximum exposure is 220 years.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
As of May 2026, no trial date had been publicly announced. Allison remained the most senior Terrorgram figure facing unresolved proceedings in the United States following Humber's December 2025 sentencing to 30 years.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes, Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/leaders-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder; KIVI-TV (Boise). "Boise man accused of leading online terrorist group will face trial in California." https://www.kivitv.com/downtown-boise/boise-man-accused-of-leading-online-terrorist-group-will-face-trial-in-california
|
||||
[^2]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "Secret Life of Matthew Allison: Goofy DJ, Accused Terrorgram Leader." March 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-allison-dj-terrogram-collective-boise-dallas-humber
|
||||
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- ManiacMurderCult
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- TerroristConviction
|
||||
- Georgia
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||
summary: "Michail Chkhikvishvili (alias 'Commander Butcher') is a Georgian national who led Maniac Murder Cult after its founder's arrest, extradited from Moldova in 2025 and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in May 2026."
|
||||
location: "Georgia (country)"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Michail Chkhikvishvili]], operating under the alias "Commander Butcher," is a Georgian national who assumed operational leadership of [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (MKY) after the network's Ukrainian founder [[Yegor Krasnov]] was arrested by Ukrainian authorities in 2020. Under Chkhikvishvili's direction, MKY expanded internationally through [[Telegram]] recruitment and continued its pattern of soliciting and glorifying real-world violence as both ideological expression and organizational initiation. He was indicted in the [[Eastern District of New York]] in July 2024, arrested in [[Chisinau]], [[Moldova]] in the same month, extradited to the United States in May 2025, and pleaded guilty in November 2025. U.S. District Judge [[Carol Bagley Amon]] sentenced him to 15 years in federal prison in May 2026.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Leadership of Maniac Murder Cult
|
||||
|
||||
Chkhikvishvili assumed MKY leadership following Krasnov's 2020 detention and expanded the network's geographic reach beyond its Ukrainian origins. He maintained MKY's core operational model - the "Murder Points" rank system that assigns numerical values to criminal acts escalating from vandalism through assault to terrorism - while recruiting internationally through Telegram channels and using encrypted [[Wire]] and [[Matrix]] applications for internal communications.
|
||||
|
||||
Under his leadership, MKY members were linked to several real-world attacks, most significantly the 2022 Romanian case in which a 17-year-old livestreamed the murder of an elderly woman as an initiation act (the perpetrator was convicted in August 2023 to 14 years), and the August 2024 [[Eskisehir]] mosque stabbing in Turkey.
|
||||
|
||||
His alias was cited by name in the manifesto left by [[Solomon Henderson]], 17, who shot and killed student [[Josselin Corea Escalante]] at Antioch High School in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] on January 22, 2025, before dying by suicide. The [[Nashville Metropolitan Police Department]]'s January 2026 investigative update concluded Henderson had no co-conspirators and found no evidence of direct operational direction from MKY.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Indictment, Extradition, and Conviction
|
||||
|
||||
A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] indicted Chkhikvishvili in July 2024 on charges of soliciting hate crimes and planning a mass casualty attack in New York City. Moldovan authorities arrested him in Chisinau the same month.
|
||||
|
||||
The [[U.S. Department of Justice]] announced his extradition from Moldova in May 2025. He pleaded guilty in November 2025 and was sentenced by Judge Carol Bagley Amon to 15 years in federal prison in May 2026, with the DOJ describing the case as part of a broader prosecution of transnational online networks that solicit real-world political violence.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Georgian National Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." May 2026. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-sentenced-15-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass; U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Georgian National Extradited from Moldova to Face Charges of Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." May 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-extradited-moldova-face-charges-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass
|
||||
[^2]: ADL. "Antioch, Tenn. Shooter Inspired by Broad Extremist Beliefs and Previous Mass Killers." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/antioch-tenn-shooter-inspired-broad-extremist-beliefs-and-previous-mass-killers
|
||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Nicholas Giampa.md
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Murder
|
||||
- Virginia
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
born: 2000
|
||||
location: "Lorton, Virginia"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||
summary: "Nicholas Giampa killed his girlfriend's parents in Reston, Virginia in December 2017 after they banned their relationship over his neo-Nazi activity, survived a self-inflicted head wound with brain damage, and died uncharged in the Fairfax County jail in 2024."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Nicholas Giampa]] was a 17-year-old resident of [[Lorton, Virginia]] (Fairfax County) who on December 22, 2017 shot and killed [[Scott Fricker]] and [[Buckley Kuhn-Fricker]], the parents of his girlfriend, at their home in [[Reston, Virginia]]. He then shot himself in the head. He survived but with severe brain damage. The murders occurred after the Fricker-Kuhn family had discovered Giampa's neo-Nazi social media activity and ordered their daughter to end the relationship.
|
||||
|
||||
Giampa was never tried. He was found incompetent to stand trial in August 2018 due to his injuries, restored to competency in 2019, declared incompetent again in 2023, and died at the [[Fairfax County Adult Detention Center]] on the night of August 22-23, 2024, before a trial could take place. Foul play was not initially suspected.
|
||||
|
||||
### AWD Connection and Background
|
||||
|
||||
Giampa's connection to [[Atomwaffen Division]] was established through public social media activity rather than confirmed formal membership. Under the alias "Kevin Gallo," he maintained a Twitter account ([@doctorpepper35]) that documented extensive neo-Nazi beliefs including heavy sharing of AWD propaganda and explicit praise for the James Mason text *[[Siege]]*. He praised a Twitter user identified as @RyanAtomwaffen. [[HuffPost]] documented and identified the account. He is described in contemporary reporting as an AWD "follower" rather than a confirmed cell member.
|
||||
|
||||
Earlier in 2017, Giampa had mowed a 40-foot swastika into a community athletic field in Lorton, Virginia.
|
||||
|
||||
### Murders and Investigation
|
||||
|
||||
The Fricker-Kuhn family had confronted their daughter about Giampa's neo-Nazi social media presence and had forbidden her from continuing the relationship. According to prosecutors, Giampa and the daughter had entered a suicide pact and had discussed "wounding her parents if they tried to intervene."
|
||||
|
||||
On December 22, 2017, Giampa entered the family home at 2600 Black Fire Court in Reston during the early morning hours and shot both parents. He then shot himself in the head. He was found at the scene alongside the bodies. He survived but the gunshot wound caused severe brain damage that would permanently affect his cognitive functioning and became the central obstacle to his prosecution.
|
||||
|
||||
### Legal Proceedings
|
||||
|
||||
Giampa was indicted in 2019 in [[Fairfax County Circuit Court]] on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was tried as an adult. In August 2018, a court found him incompetent to stand trial due to the effects of his brain injury. A 2019 ruling found him restored to competency and scheduled an adult trial. By 2023, competency proceedings again found him unable to stand trial. No trial ever took place.
|
||||
|
||||
He was found unresponsive in his cell at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center at approximately 1:58 a.m. on August 22-23, 2024 and was pronounced dead. Initial investigation did not suspect foul play.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: HuffPost. "Neo-Nazi Teen Allegedly Killed Girlfriend's Parents After They Tried to Stop the Relationship." January 2018. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicholas-giampa-neo-nazi-teenager-murder-girlfriends-parents-virginia_n_5a4d0797e4b0b0e5a7aa4780; NBC Washington. "Man Charged in 2017 Double Homicide Found Dead at Virginia Jail." August 2024. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/man-charged-in-2017-double-homicide-found-dead-at-virginia-jail/3700783/; PBS FRONTLINE. "Three Murder Suspects Linked to Atomwaffen: Where Their Cases Stand." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/three-murder-suspects-linked-to-atomwaffen-where-their-cases-stand/
|
||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Nikita Casap.md
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- TerrorgramCollective
|
||||
- O9A
|
||||
- MisanthropicDivision
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Wisconsin
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- FederalInvestigation
|
||||
- Parricidal
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Nikita Casap is a Waukesha, Wisconsin man sentenced to two consecutive life terms in March 2026 for murdering his mother and stepfather in February 2025 to fund a planned assassination of President Trump, with the FBI documenting extensive Terrorgram radicalization and contacts with European co-conspirators."
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born: 2007
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location: "Waukesha, Wisconsin"
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---
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[[Nikita Casap]] (born approximately 2007, [[Waukesha, Wisconsin]]) was a 17-year-old neo-Nazi who on approximately February 11, 2025 shot and killed his mother, [[Tatiana Casap]], and his stepfather, [[Donald Mayer]], at the family's home in Waukesha County. His stated purpose was to acquire the funds and means to assassinate President [[Donald Trump]] and trigger the accelerationist collapse of American society. He lived with the bodies for approximately two weeks before fleeing with stolen cash, jewelry, passports, his stepfather's firearm, the family dog, and the household Volkswagen Atlas. He was apprehended in [[Kansas]] and charged in Waukesha County. He pleaded guilty on January 8, 2026, and was sentenced on March 6, 2026, to two consecutive life terms without possibility of parole by [[Waukesha County Circuit Court]] Judge [[Ralph Ramirez]].[^1]
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### Murders and Flight
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Casap killed Tatiana Casap and Donald Mayer in their Waukesha home and then remained at the residence with the bodies for approximately two weeks, during which time he continued his online activity and assassination planning. Before departing he took approximately $14,000 in cash, jewelry, passports, Mayer's firearm, the family pet, and the family vehicle.
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Federal investigators, working from a search warrant affidavit filed March 18, 2025, documented that Casap had been communicating on [[Telegram]] with a contact using the username "Angel of Death" about the assassination plan and with a separate contact in Russia about plans to overthrow the U.S. government. A third contact, whose phone number was registered to Vodafone Ukraine and whose name transliterates from Cyrillic as "POMaH BiKTOBHH," had allegedly provided Casap with detailed instructions for concealing the bodies, evading law enforcement, and executing a post-assassination escape to Ukraine, where he planned to live in hiding for approximately a decade.[^2]
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He was intercepted by law enforcement and arrested in Kansas before he could leave the country.
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|
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### Manifesto and Assassination Planning
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|
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Casap left a three-page manifesto titled "Accelerate the Collapse" with an explicit accelerationist argument: that Trump's assassination would foment a political revolution and "save the white race" from what the document called "Jewish controlled politicians." The operative sentence, quoted in court documents and widely reported, was: "Do absolutely anything you can that will lead to the collapse of America or any country you live in. This is the only way we can save the White race." The manifesto also contained the phrase "HAIL HITLER HAIL THE WHITE RACE HAIL VICTORY" alongside imagery of Adolf Hitler.[^2]
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|
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His assassination method evolved from an initial plan to mount an AK-47 on a commercially available drone to a revised plan involving dropping explosives from a drone above Trump. To fund the drone and explosives acquisition, Casap transferred approximately $8,700 in [[Bitcoin]] from his stepfather's account to individuals he believed were supplying the equipment. Those individuals were scammers; no actual drone or explosives were ever delivered.[^1][^3]
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|
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### Online Network Affiliations
|
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|
||||
Casap was active in at least five extremist Telegram channels at the time of his arrest. Documented affiliations included a [[Russia|Russian]]-language neo-Nazi chat that distributed instructions for building explosives and poison, and a channel run by or associated with [[Misanthropic Division]] that had more than 4,300 participants. He operated on these platforms under the aliases "accelerationist14" and "Awoken."
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|
||||
His manifesto cited unnamed [[Terrorgram Collective]] publications, which federal investigators described as including instructions for building bombs and sabotaging critical infrastructure. He also explicitly cited the writings of [[Juraj Krajčík]], the Slovak neo-Nazi who killed two people at the [[Tepláreň]] LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava in October 2022 as a Terrorgram "saint." Court documents also documented an affiliation with the [[Order of Nine Angles]].[^2]
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|
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### Terrorgram Attribution and DOJ Record
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In the factual basis for [[Dallas Humber]]'s August 8, 2025 guilty plea, DOJ described the Wisconsin murders as one of seven attacks attributed to Humber's guidance, referencing Casap as "N.C." and describing him as having "murdered two people in Wisconsin in furtherance of his plot to assassinate a federal official." The designation of Trump as a "federal official" in this framing reflects 18 U.S.C. § 1114 language used in the prosecution. This document constitutes the primary legal record in the public domain connecting Humber directly to Casap's radicalization pathway.[^4]
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||||
|
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### Arrest and Sentencing
|
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|
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State charges in Waukesha County included two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, identity theft, theft, and two counts of hiding a corpse. Under the terms of his January 8, 2026 plea agreement, the non-homicide counts were dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea to both homicide charges.
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|
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Judge Ralph Ramirez imposed two consecutive life terms with no parole eligibility at the March 6, 2026 sentencing, explicitly ruling out any future parole consideration. Casap was 18 at sentencing, having turned 18 after the murders but before the plea proceedings.[^1]
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|
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### Federal Investigation Status
|
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|
||||
As of May 2026, no federal indictment against Casap had been publicly announced. The FBI search warrant affidavit, cited in press reporting, stated that probable cause existed to believe he committed federal offenses including conspiracy to assassinate the president (18 U.S.C. § 1751) and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. The state life sentences reduced the legal urgency of federal prosecution, but the identities of his European co-conspirators, including the Russian-speaking contacts documented in the affidavit, remained publicly undisclosed as of May 2026. Investigative reporting as late as March 2026 described the assassination-plot network as still "shrouded in mystery."[^3]
|
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|
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### Footnotes
|
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|
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[^1]: Spectrum News 1. "Nikita Casap gets life in prison with no parole for parents' murder and Trump assassination plot." March 6, 2026. https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2026/03/06/nikita-casap-life-in-prison-trump-assassination-plot--sentencing; Washington Post. "Wisconsin man who killed his parents to fund Trump assassination attempt gets life in prison." March 5, 2026. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2026/03/05/wisconsin-deaths-trump-assassination-plot-casap/04cc7a2c-18e6-11f1-aef0-0aac8e8e94db_story.html
|
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[^2]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "White Supremacist Terrorgram Network Allegedly Inspired a Teen to Murder His Parents to Fund a Plot to Assassinate Trump." April 18, 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-assassionation-plot-nikita-casap-terrorgram-wisconsin-frontline
|
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[^3]: Daily Caller. "Trump Assassination Plot That Took Two Innocent Lives Still Shrouded In Mystery." March 19, 2026. https://dailycaller.com/2026/03/19/trump-assassination-plot-that-took-two-innocent-lives-still-shrouded-in-mystery/; Spectrum News 1. "Nikita Casap pleads guilty to homicide." January 8, 2026. https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2026/01/08/nikita-casap--plea-deal--trump-assassination-plot--murder
|
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[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Pleads Guilty." August 8, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-pleads-guilty-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
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tags:
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- Person
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- NeoNazi
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- SonnenkriegDivision
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- O9A
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- UK
|
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- TerroristConviction
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- Accelerationism
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- London
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location: "West London, England"
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created: 2026-05-22
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updated: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski was an 18-year-old from West London who was a Sonnenkrieg Division member sentenced in June 2019 to an 18-month Detention and Training Order at the Old Bailey for two counts of encouraging terrorism via Gab posts supporting Anders Breivik and calling for ethnic cleansing."
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---
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Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, of West London, was a member of [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (SKD), the British neo-Nazi accelerationist organisation proscribed in 2019. He was sentenced at the [[Old Bailey]] on 18 June 2019 by Judge [[Rebecca Poulet QC]] to an 18-month Detention and Training Order after pleading guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism under section 1 of the [[Terrorism Act 2006]].[^1]
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### Offences
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Dunn-Koczorowski operated a personal Gab account under a pseudonym and shared administrative control of SKD's [[Gab]] page alongside co-defendant [[Michael Szewczuk]]. The Gab posts for which he was convicted included:
|
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|
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Material expressing support for [[Anders Behring Breivik]], the Norwegian far-right extremist who killed 77 people in the 2011 [[Utoya]] attack and Oslo bombing.
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Content calling for the ethnic cleansing of Albanians.
|
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|
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He pleaded guilty in December 2018 to the two encouraging terrorism counts; sentencing was deferred until June 2019. He did not face possession charges.
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|
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### Sentencing Remarks
|
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|
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Judge Rebecca Poulet QC described the content produced by both Dunn-Koczorowski and Szewczuk as "abhorrent as well as criminal by reason of their clear intention to encourage terrorist acts."[^2] The lighter sentence compared to Szewczuk reflected both the fewer counts and the lesser volume of material attributed to Dunn-Koczorowski.
|
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|
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### Sonnenkrieg Division and O9A
|
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|
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Sonnenkrieg Division was founded by [[Andrew Dymock]] following his departure from the [[System Resistance Network]] and incorporated [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) philosophy heavily into its ideology, distinguishing it from its National Action-successor predecessor. Dunn-Koczorowski and Szewczuk were the first SKD members to face prosecution; their sentences preceded SKD's formal proscription, which followed later in 2019.
|
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|
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### Footnotes
|
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|
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[^1]: Washington Post. "Two British teens just convicted for promoting far-right terrorism online." June 18, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/18/two-british-teens-just-convicted-promoting-far-right-terrorism-online/; IOL News. "Neo-Nazi teen who called Prince Harry a 'race traitor' jailed." June 19, 2019. https://iol.co.za/news/world/2019-06-19-neo-nazi-teen-who-called-prince-harry-a-race-traitor-jailed/
|
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|
||||
[^2]: HOPE not hate. "Jailed neo-Nazi Satanists were a legacy of National Action." June 18, 2019. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2019/06/18/jailed-neo-nazi-satanists-legacy-national-action/
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
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tags:
|
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- Person
|
||||
- FeuerkriegDivision
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- UK
|
||||
- TerroristConviction
|
||||
- UKTerrorism
|
||||
born: 2003
|
||||
location: "Rugby, Warwickshire, England"
|
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created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Paul Dunleavy was a 17-year-old from Rugby convicted in October 2020 at Birmingham Crown Court of preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism by distributing firearm-conversion manuals to Feuerkrieg Division members, including to the Lithuanian member who later planted a bomb in Vilnius."
|
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---
|
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|
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Paul Dunleavy, 17, of [[Rugby]], Warwickshire, was convicted on 6 October 2020 by a jury at [[Birmingham Crown Court]] of preparing acts of terrorism between April and September 2019, making him one of the youngest people convicted of terrorism-related offences in the United Kingdom. He was sentenced to five years and six months' detention by Judge [[Paul Farrer QC]], with a concurrent two years for possessing terrorist documents.[^1]
|
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|
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### Activity and FKD Membership
|
||||
|
||||
Dunleavy joined [[Feuerkrieg Division]] while 14 years old and became an active participant in its encrypted online networks. His primary criminal activity was the distribution of detailed firearm-conversion manuals and the provision of operational advice on building functional firearms from legally purchased components to other FKD members. The judge described his advice and encouragement to fellow members as "significant."[^2]
|
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|
||||
The trial revealed that three FKD members to whom Dunleavy had provided assistance were subsequently convicted of terrorist offences in Germany, Lithuania, and the United States. The Lithuanian connection is documented in other sources as relating to [[Gediminas Beržinskas]], who placed a homemade explosive device outside a [[Western Union]] office in [[Vilnius]] in October 2019 and was convicted by [[Vilnius Regional Court]] in September 2020. Dunleavy's provision of bomb-making guidance and firearm-conversion advice to Beržinskas and others established his culpability for the broader conspiracy.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Arrest and Conviction
|
||||
|
||||
Dunleavy was first identified through investigative intelligence and was arrested by counter-terrorism investigators in connection with the FKD network. His trial at Birmingham Crown Court was a jury trial rather than a guilty-plea proceeding, distinguishing it from most other UK FKD cases. He was unanimously convicted. The court heard evidence about his extensive collection of ideological texts, his participation in FKD's encrypted communications, and the cross-national impact of the firearms guidance he had distributed.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
At sentencing, Judge Farrer noted Dunleavy's autism as a factor but said it did not diminish the seriousness of his offences or the real-world danger he created. The judge's characterization of autism as having contributed to an "obsessional interest in firearms" was noted in press coverage and is factually contested by disability researchers.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Transnational Causal Chain
|
||||
|
||||
Dunleavy's case is the most clearly documented instance of transnational criminal causation within the FKD network: a UK teenager advising a Lithuanian member whose subsequent bombing constituted one of the first FKD-linked acts of political violence in Europe. The 2021 sentencing by a UK court of a British teenager for providing advice to a Lithuanian terrorist who had already been convicted in Lithuania also represented an early example of parallel prosecution across European jurisdictions in FKD cases.[^3]
|
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|
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### Footnotes
|
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|
||||
[^1]: Express and Star. "Boy, 17, sentenced to detention for preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism." November 6, 2020. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/11/06/boy-17-sentenced-to-detention-for-preparing-neo-nazi-acts-of-terrorism/; Anadolu Agency. "UK sentences youngest far-right terrorist." https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/uk-sentences-youngest-far-right-terrorist/2137742
|
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[^2]: Far-Right Criminals. "Rugby teenager Paul Dunleavy jailed for terror offences." November 6, 2020. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2020/11/06/rugby-teenager-paul-dunleavy-jailed-for-terror-offences/; Campaign Against Antisemitism. "Teenager from Rugby linked to neo-Nazi groups jailed for terror offences." https://antisemitism.org/teenager-from-rugby-linked-to-neo-nazi-groups-jailed-for-terror-offences
|
||||
[^3]: LRT. "Britain sentences teenager who 'advised' Lithuanian neo-Nazi terrorist." 2021. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1274096/britain-sentences-teenager-who-advised-lithuanian-neo-nazi-terrorist
|
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---
|
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
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- Person
|
||||
- TerrorgramCollective
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- Slovakia
|
||||
- TerroristConviction
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||
summary: "Pavol Beňadik, alias 'Slovakbro,' was the Slovak co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who mentored Juraj Krajčík before the 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar shooting and was sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison for inciting terrorism."
|
||||
born: 1999
|
||||
location: "Slovakia"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Pavol Beňadik]], operating online under the alias "Slovakbro," is a [[Slovakia|Slovak]] national who co-founded the [[Terrorgram Collective]] in the summer of 2019 alongside Canadian co-founder [[Matthew Althorpe]]. He built the initial infrastructure of what became one of the most consequential accelerationist neo-Nazi networks in the world, created at least five neo-Nazi [[Telegram]] channels and two group chats, and directly mentored [[Juraj Krajčík]] - the perpetrator of the October 2022 Bratislava [[LGBTQ+]] bar shooting - from age 16. Beňadik was arrested by Slovak authorities in May 2022 and subsequently sentenced to six years in prison for inciting the overthrow of the democratic system and acts of terrorism, the first major prosecution of a Terrorgram figure.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Founding of Terrorgram
|
||||
|
||||
Beňadik began creating neo-Nazi Telegram content in the immediate aftermath of the [[Brenton Tarrant]] Christchurch attacks of March 2019, when the accelerationist community had been partially displaced from [[Iron March]]-successor spaces by deplatforming. At approximately 19 to 20 years of age, he launched channels that drew the growing post-Christchurch accelerationist Telegram ecosystem into a more coherent network. His initial work attracted Althorpe, who had been operating as an [[Atomwaffen Division]] propagandist, and together they formalized the Terrorgram Collective as an inner circle committed to producing professional-quality propaganda.
|
||||
|
||||
Beňadik's channels posted bomb-making instructions, accelerationist ideological content, and the Saints Culture graphics that became Terrorgram's most recognizable output - trading-card-style tributes to far-right mass shooters framed as models for emulation.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Mentorship of Juraj Krajčík
|
||||
|
||||
Beňadik's most consequential documented activity was his sustained personal mentorship of [[Juraj Krajčík]] of Slovakia, who had entered Terrorgram's channels in August 2019 at age approximately 16. Over the following three years, Beňadik mentored Krajčík through the network's radicalization pathway, calling explicitly for the creation of "saints" from Slovakia. Krajčík cited Beňadik by his alias in the manifesto he left before carrying out the October 12, 2022 attack at [[Tepláreň]], an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava, in which two people were killed and one wounded.
|
||||
|
||||
The Bratislava attack was identified by Terrorgram community members and researchers as the first "saint" event produced by the network's mentorship activities. Beňadik had been arrested by Slovak authorities in May 2022, five months before the attack, but Krajčík completed the act anyway based on the years of prior mentorship.[^1][^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Arrest and Conviction
|
||||
|
||||
Slovak authorities arrested Beňadik in May 2022 as part of an investigation into his Telegram activities. He faced more than 200 terrorism-related charges under Slovak law. He was convicted and sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison for inciting the overthrow of the democratic constitutional system and for acts of terrorism. The conviction made him the first Terrorgram Collective figure to be imprisoned and established that at least one jurisdiction was prepared to treat the network's online activities as actionable terrorism offenses.
|
||||
|
||||
His arrest preceded by more than two years the U.S. arrests of [[Dallas Humber]] and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] in September 2024, and the Canadian arrest of Althorpe in December 2023.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Canadian Anti-Hate Network. "Terrorgram, a Neo-Nazi Collective, at the Heart of International Arrests." https://www.antihate.ca/terrorgram_neo_nazi_collective_heart_international_arrests
|
||||
[^2]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram." 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram
|
||||
[^3]: RSIS. "Bratislava Shooting: The Making of Terrorgram's First Saint." https://rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/rsis/bratislava-shooting-the-making-of-terrorgrams-first-saint/
|
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---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- Accelerationism
|
||||
- SaintsCulture
|
||||
- GreatReplacementTheory
|
||||
- NewYork
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- MassShooter
|
||||
- TerrorgramCollective
|
||||
born: 2003-05-27
|
||||
location: "Conklin, New York"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||
summary: "Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022, livestreaming the attack and leaving a manifesto modeled on Brenton Tarrant's, sentenced to consecutive life terms and cited as inspiration by subsequent accelerationist attackers."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Payton Gendron]] (born May 27, 2003, [[Conklin, New York]]) attacked the [[Tops Friendly Markets|Tops supermarket]] on Jefferson Avenue in the predominantly Black East Side neighborhood of [[Buffalo, New York]] on May 14, 2022, killing 10 people and wounding 3. All 10 victims were Black; Gendron had driven approximately 200 miles from his home in Conklin specifically targeting Buffalo's East Side because of its demographics. He live-streamed the attack through a helmet-mounted camera on Twitch. He left a 180-page manifesto explicitly framed as continuing [[Brenton Tarrant]]'s 2019 [[2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings|Christchurch]] attack, adopting Tarrant's format and ideological argument. Gendron pleaded guilty to all counts in November 2022 and was sentenced to life without parole in state court in February 2023, with federal hate crime convictions adding additional consecutive life terms. [[Juraj Krajčík]] named Gendron as his "final nudge" before the October 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar attack; [[Nikita Casap]] also cited Gendron as an influence before his February 2025 Wisconsin killings.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Buffalo Supermarket Attack
|
||||
|
||||
Gendron drove from Conklin to Buffalo on May 14, 2022, arriving at the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue at approximately 2:30 PM. He wore tactical gear and a camera, opened fire in the parking lot, and then entered the store. He killed a retired police officer employed as a security guard, [[Aaron Salter Jr.]], who fired at Gendron but was unable to penetrate his body armor. Of the 13 people shot, 10 died. Gendron then surrendered to police at the scene.
|
||||
|
||||
The Twitch stream was active for approximately 2 minutes before the platform removed it. The footage was subsequently redistributed widely through Telegram and other platforms, following the same pattern established after Christchurch.
|
||||
|
||||
The 10 victims were: [[Aaron Salter Jr.]], [[Roberta Drury]], [[Margus Morrison]], [[Andre Mackniel]], [[Katherine Massey]], [[Heyward Patterson]], [[Celestine Chaney]], [[Geraldine Talley]], [[Ruth Whitfield]], and [[Pearl Young]].[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Manifesto and Radicalization
|
||||
|
||||
Gendron's manifesto was structured as an explicit homage to Tarrant's "The Great Replacement," borrowing Tarrant's format of a question-and-answer self-interview alongside strategic and operational arguments. It adopted "great replacement" ideology, citing the same French conspiracy theory framework. Gendron had radicalized primarily through 4chan's /pol/ board and had been consuming accelerationist content from an early age, with no documented connection to a specific organized network prior to the attack.
|
||||
|
||||
His manifesto included specific targeting research (why Buffalo, why this supermarket), tactical guidance, and an explicit framing of the attack as a contribution to an ongoing acceleration campaign. The document's detailed radicalization self-history became a significant data point for researchers studying online radicalization pathways independent of organizational membership.
|
||||
|
||||
### Conviction and Sentencing
|
||||
|
||||
Gendron was arrested immediately after the attack without resistance. He was charged in state court with ten counts of first-degree murder as a hate crime and related charges. He pleaded guilty in November 2022. In February 2023, Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan sentenced him to life in prison without possibility of parole on each count, to run consecutively.
|
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|
||||
Federal prosecutors separately charged Gendron with hate crimes, obstruction of religion, and use of a firearm in a hate crime. He pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2023 and received additional life sentences from U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
His documented role in the inspiration chain confirmed by court evidence includes Krajčík's naming him in the Bratislava manifesto and Casap's references in the "Accelerate the Collapse" document before his parents' murders. The [[Terrorgram Collective]]'s channels circulated Gendron saint cards in the same format as Tarrant materials.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. "Payton Gendron Sentenced to Multiple Life Terms in Federal Hate Crime Case." 2023. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/payton-gendron-sentenced-multiple-life-terms-federal-hate-crime-case
|
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[^2]: Buffalo News. "Payton Gendron pleads guilty to all charges in Buffalo mass shooting." November 2022.
|
||||
[^3]: ProPublica. "Telegram, Terrorgram Collective, Bratislava Murders." https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders-neo-nazi-online-hate
|
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|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
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- NationalAction
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- Yorkshire
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created: 2026-05-22
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updated: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Ryan Fleming was a regional organiser for National Action's Yorkshire branch and an O9A nexion leader who ran the Drakon Covenant cell, publishing occultist texts under the pseudonym A.A. Morain while accumulating convictions for child sexual abuse spanning 2012 to 2021."
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Ryan Fleming, of Horsforth, Leeds, was a regional organiser for [[National Action]]'s Yorkshire branch and a leader of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) nexion known as the [[Drakon Covenant]], which operated out of Yorkshire. He is the principal documented conduit through which O9A ideology entered National Action's internal culture during the period 2015 to 2017.
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### National Action Role and O9A Integration
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Fleming is described in contemporaneous anti-fascist and journalistic reporting as a regional organiser who worked to push National Action toward [[Left-Hand Path]] occultism, specifically the O9A's [[Seven Fold Way]] framework. Police searches of National Action members' homes during the prosecution of the organisation's post-proscription membership uncovered materials bearing O9A symbols, which investigators and journalists attributed to Fleming's influence within the group.[^1]
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Fleming was an active poster on the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist web forum, where he promoted O9A doctrine and recruited for the Drakon Covenant. His Iron March presence connected the Yorkshire nexion to other O9A-affiliated formations internationally, and the Drakon Covenant maintained documented contact with the American nexion [[Tempel ov Blood]] (ToB). The foreword to one of Fleming's published books, *Codex Aristarchus*, was written by "Czar Azag-kala" of Tempel ov Blood, demonstrating a direct editorial relationship between the Yorkshire and American O9A formations.[^2] Fleming's Iron March account is corroborated by the database leak of November 2019. Whether Counter Terrorism Command's post-leak National Action investigation, which identified [[Benjamin Hannam]] via the "Anglisc" account in February 2020, also cross-referenced Fleming's Iron March activity is not confirmed in any public source.
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### Drakon Covenant and Published Works
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Fleming operated the Drakon Covenant under the pseudonym "A.A. Morain." Under that name he wrote and published at least two documented texts within the O9A publishing ecosystem: *Scithain: Vampyric Witchcraft of the Drakon Covenant* and *Codex Aristarchus*. Both works position themselves within O9A's broader doctrinal corpus on the acausal realm and transgressive spiritual practice.
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The journalist Jake Hanrahan confirmed the Fleming-Morain identification and the Drakon Covenant's Yorkshire base in February 2021 reporting.[^3] The nexion's international connections were documented in [[HOPE not hate]]'s "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism" chapter in *State of Hate 2020*.[^1]
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### Criminal Convictions
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Fleming's criminal record for child sexual abuse pre-dates his period of peak influence within National Action and continued through 2021.
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In 2012, Fleming was convicted of falsely imprisoning, torturing, and sexually abusing a young boy. He was sentenced to 26 months' imprisonment. The conviction established a sexual harm prevention order restricting his contact with children.[^4]
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In 2017, Fleming was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl he met online through Facebook, and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. HOPE not hate reported this conviction at the time.[^5]
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In February 2021, Fleming was sentenced to a further six months in prison after police found him messaging young teenagers online in violation of the sexual harm prevention order that had been in place since his earlier convictions. Counter Terrorism Policing detected the breach in December 2020 via Instagram. The conviction was reported by BBC journalist Daniel De Simone, who confirmed Fleming's concurrent O9A membership at the time of the 2021 breach.[^6]
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As of mid-2026, no terrorism charges have been brought against Fleming in connection with his National Action organising or O9A nexion leadership. His criminal record consists entirely of the child sexual abuse counts. No parliamentary question specifically naming Fleming in connection with counter-terrorism non-prosecution has been located in Hansard, and no published CPS decision on the question has been found.[^7]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: HOPE not hate. "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism." *State of Hate 2020*. https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/order-of-nine-angles-an-incubator-of-terrorism/
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[^2]: Middlebury Institute CTEC. "Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: National Action." https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-5
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[^3]: Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan). "Fleming runs a Yorkshire based cell (or nexion as they call it) of the O9A. It's called the Drakon Covenant." 11 February 2021. https://x.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1360317804600324096
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[^4]: Far-Right Criminals. "Ryan Fleming: Neo-Nazi paedophile jailed for messaging children." February 2021. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2021/02/13/ryan-fleming-neo-nazi-paedophile-jailed-for-messaging-children/
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[^5]: HOPE not hate. "Jailed! National Action paedophile behind bars." 29 July 2017. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2017/07/29/jailed-national-action-paedophile-behind-bars/
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[^6]: Daniel De Simone (@DdesimoneDaniel). Twitter, 11 February 2021. https://x.com/DdesimoneDaniel/status/1360244058636120064
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[^7]: Red Rose UK News. "Ryan Fleming from Leeds jailed for contact with children after neo-Nazi group involvement." https://madebyredrose.co.uk/abuser/ryan-fleming-1; HOPE not hate. "Jailed! National Action paedophile behind bars." 29 July 2017. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2017/07/29/jailed-national-action-paedophile-behind-bars/
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
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tags:
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- Person
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- AtomwaffenDivision
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- NeoNazi
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- Accelerationism
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- FederalCase
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- InfrastructureAttack
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- Maryland
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- USA
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- TerroristConviction
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created: 2026-05-21
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updated: 2026-05-22
|
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summary: "Sarah Beth Clendaniel is a Cecil County, Maryland-born neo-Nazi who conspired with Atomwaffen Division founder Brandon Russell to destroy five BGE substations, having developed white nationalist beliefs independently since 2001 before meeting Russell through prison correspondence in 2018."
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born: 1987
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location: "Catonsville, Maryland"
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---
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[[Sarah Beth Clendaniel]] (born approximately 1987, [[Cecil County, Maryland]]) conspired with [[Atomwaffen Division]] founder [[Brandon Russell]] to destroy multiple electrical power substations operated by [[Baltimore Gas and Electric]] (BGE) in a coordinated attack intended to trigger a cascading city-wide power failure. The plot followed the accelerationist strategic logic at the center of AWD's founding ideology: that destroying infrastructure could function as a catalyst for the societal breakdown and race war that Clendaniel and Russell believed would ultimately produce a white nationalist state. She pleaded guilty on May 14, 2024, and was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on September 24, 2024.[^6]
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### Cecil County Origins and Pre-2018 Criminal History
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Clendaniel grew up in rural Cecil County, a heavily white, conservative area bordering [[Delaware]] and [[Pennsylvania]] in Maryland's northeastern corner. She later stated that she had held Nazi beliefs since 2001.
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Her first documented felony arrest occurred in 2006 in Cecil County, when she was charged with armed robbery at a convenience store (she wielded a large butcher knife) and several other offenses. That 2006 case resulted in a plea in [[Cecil County Circuit Court]] and a five-year prison sentence, though the sentencing did not occur until April 2015 when she received one year of jail time for the 2006 robbery under a deferred resolution structure.[^1]
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In March 2016, Clendaniel committed three armed robberies of convenience stores within a four-day period, all in Cecil County: the Pantry 1 Mart near [[Rising Sun, Maryland|Rising Sun]] on March 21, the High's Dairy Store at 3155 Joseph Biggs Memorial Highway in [[Bay View, Maryland|Bay View]] on March 22, and the same Pantry 1 Mart again on March 25. She brandished a machete during each robbery and demanded cash and cigarettes. Maryland State Police arrested her in the act of robbing the High's Dairy Store in Bay View on March 29, 2016. She pleaded guilty in Cecil County Circuit Court to three counts of robbery and received a nine-year sentence in June 2016.[^1]
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### Prison-Period Correspondence with Russell
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Clendaniel began exchanging letters with Russell in approximately 2018 while both were serving federal and state sentences in different facilities. The [[FBI]] was aware of the correspondence at least from 2018; investigative files cited the relationship in the Russell case as evidence of a pre-existing connection that preceded any FBI informant involvement in the later conspiracy.[^2]
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During this period Clendaniel is also reported to have been in contact with the [[White Prison Newsletter]], the neo-Nazi accelerationist prison publication that Russell co-organized from his [[Federal Correctional Institution]] placement. The newsletter was also endorsed by [[Robert Gregory Bowers]], the [[2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting|Pittsburgh synagogue shooting]] perpetrator.[^3]
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|
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### Release (2020) and Post-Prison Radicalization
|
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|
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Clendaniel was released from custody in approximately 2020 after serving several years of her nine-year 2016 sentence. Court records filed in connection with her 2024 plea state that after release she "fell back into familiar patterns of addiction and embraced increasingly radical views." Her post-prison ideology expanded beyond the general white nationalist beliefs she had held since 2001 into the [[Accelerationism|accelerationist]] framework Russell had developed through AWD, specifically the theory that targeted infrastructure destruction could precipitate systemic collapse and race war.[^4]
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After her own release, Clendaniel moved to [[Catonsville, Maryland]], in [[Baltimore County]], where she was living at the time of her 2023 arrest.
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### The Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy
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|
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Clendaniel and Russell's plan called for the simultaneous physical destruction of five BGE transformer substations in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Their operational theory held that striking multiple substations at the same time would prevent grid operators from rerouting power, producing a city-wide blackout. Clendaniel served as the operational executor of the conspiracy's Maryland component: while Russell, then living in [[Orlando, Florida]], provided the ideological framework and sought to procure weapons through the [[FBI informant]] [[Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS)|Christopher Jackson]], Clendaniel conducted physical reconnaissance of the targeted substations and identified five sites to be struck simultaneously, selecting locations near [[Norrisville, Maryland|Norrisville]], [[Reisterstown, Maryland|Reisterstown]], and [[Perry Hall, Maryland|Perry Hall]], plus two additional substations near Baltimore City proper.
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|
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In a recorded telephone conversation with Jackson on January 29, 2023, Clendaniel stated: "it would permanently completely lay this city to waste if we could do that successfully." She described a "ring" of substations surrounding Baltimore and argued that hitting multiple facilities simultaneously would prevent BGE grid operators from rerouting power, producing a city-wide blackout. The attack was explicitly framed as targeting a majority-Black city as a precondition for racial conflict.[^5]
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|
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Clendaniel possessed firearms that she had acquired for the plot despite her status as a convicted felon, making firearm possession independently illegal. The [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] (ATF) documented the firearms as part of the investigation.
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|
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The pair communicated the plan through encrypted channels; the case was prosecuted in the [[District of Maryland]] under Senior U.S. District Judge [[James K. Bredar]]. Federal investigators disrupted the conspiracy before any attack was carried out.
|
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|
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[[Dallas Humber]], who led the [[Terrorgram Collective]] inner circle during the same period, was separately alleged in court documents to have remained in contact with Clendaniel and Russell, though Humber was not charged as a co-conspirator specifically in the substation plot.
|
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|
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### Charges and Plea
|
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|
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Clendaniel was arrested February 3, 2023. A federal grand jury returned an indictment in the District of Maryland, case number 1:23-cr-00056, before Senior U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar, charging her with one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility (18 U.S.C. § 1366(b)) and one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)).[^6]
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|
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Clendaniel pleaded guilty on May 14, 2024, in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, admitting to both counts.
|
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|
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### Sentencing: September 24, 2024
|
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|
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Bredar sentenced Clendaniel to 18 years in federal prison on September 24, 2024, followed by a lifetime of supervised release. The government recommended the 18-year term; Bredar accepted it. The judge stated he "wanted to believe" she would not have carried through on the plot but concluded he was "not convinced she wouldn't act on them in the future" given the "extreme" nature of the planned attacks. Bredar found the crime was "a means of furthering her violent white supremacist ideology" and declined to credit claims that her participation had been primarily passive.
|
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|
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Clendaniel received a shorter sentence than Russell (18 years vs. 20 years) based on Bredar's later analysis at Russell's sentencing that Russell had supplied the "intellectual horsepower" and was the more culpable party.[^4]
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### Footnotes
|
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|
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[^1]: Cecil Daily. "Woman charged in neo-Nazi plot has criminal record in Cecil County." February 2023. https://www.cecildaily.com/news/woman-charged-in-neo-nazi-plot-has-criminal-record-in-cecil-county/article_b079a3b8-c164-5fd2-8562-2b2d092d690f.html
|
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|
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[^2]: The Baltimore Banner. "How neo-Nazi leader Brandon Russell came to be accused of targeting Baltimore substations." 2023. https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/brandon-russell-neo-nazi-sarah-clendaniel-power-substation-CH6ZNB2FVVDYREOUJEMGTODDCM/
|
||||
|
||||
[^3]: Vice. "Inside the Neo-Nazi Prison Magazine Radicalizing Americans in Their Cells." https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/
|
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|
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[^4]: CBS Baltimore. "Woman sentenced to 18 years in white supremacist plot to destroy Maryland's power grid." September 24, 2024. https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/woman-sentenced-maryland-neo-nazi-plot-destory-maryland-power-grid/; WJLA. "Woman sentenced to 18 years for plot with neo-Nazi leader to attack Baltimore's power grid." September 2024. https://wjla.com/news/local/baltimore-woman-neo-nazi-power-grid-attack-destroy-radical-racist-sarah-clendaniel-trauma-guilty-plea-sentencing-california-health-felon-relationship-facilities
|
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|
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[^5]: ABC News. "Suspected white supremacists arrested in plot to attack power stations, destroy Baltimore." February 6, 2023. https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspects-arrested-plot-attack-power-stations-destroy-baltimore/story?id=96923380; Nottingham MD. "Baltimore County woman pleads guilty to conspiring to destroy local power grid, Perry Hall substation." May 14, 2024. https://nottinghammd.com/2024/05/14/baltimore-county-woman-pleads-guilty-to-conspiring-to-destroy-local-power-grid-perry-hall-substation/
|
||||
|
||||
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Md. "Federal Indictment Returned Charging Maryland Woman and Florida Man for Conspiring to Destroy Energy Facilities." February 14, 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/federal-indictment-returned-charging-maryland-woman-and-florida-man-conspiring-destroy; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-Maryland. "White Supremacist Leader Found Guilty of Conspiring to Destroy Regional Power Grid." https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/white-supremacist-leader-found-guilty-conspiring-destroy-regional-power-grid
|
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|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- IronMarch
|
||||
- NeoNazi
|
||||
- ICE
|
||||
- CoreCivic
|
||||
- PrivatePrisons
|
||||
- Nevada
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Travis Frey was an ICE detention center captain at a CoreCivic facility in Nevada who was identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak as an active neo-Nazi forum user who had described himself as a fascist and sought to organize for the Traditionalist Workers Party."
|
||||
born: 1989
|
||||
location: "Nevada / Indianapolis"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Travis Frey]], identified through the 2019 [[Iron March]] database leak, was employed as a captain at the [[Nevada Southern Detention Center]], a facility operated by private prison company [[CoreCivic]] under contract with [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE), at the time of his public identification in January 2020.
|
||||
|
||||
### Iron March Activity
|
||||
|
||||
Frey registered on Iron March in 2013 under the username "In Hoc Signo Vinces," a Latin phrase used by various military and academic institutions. He posted at least a dozen times between 2016 and 2017. During that period he was employed as head of security at a CoreCivic jail in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of several positions he held within the CoreCivic private detention network. Forum posts showed Frey describing himself as a "fascist" and expressing interest in organizing for the [[Traditionalist Workers Party]] (TWP) in Indiana. In June 2017, he made direct overtures toward joining TWP, then led by [[Matthew Heimbach]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Identification
|
||||
|
||||
[[Vice News]] identified Frey in January 2020 by cross-referencing the Iron March database's registration email address, phone number, birthday, and self-disclosed place of residence against open-source records. By the time of publication, Frey had been promoted to captain at the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump, Nevada, which holds individuals detained pending immigration proceedings.
|
||||
|
||||
Vice reporters found that Frey, who was 31 at the time, had moved from Indianapolis to Nevada after his time at the Indianapolis CoreCivic facility. The Nevada Southern Detention Center is one of the largest ICE detention facilities in the western United States.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Institutional Response
|
||||
|
||||
CoreCivic confirmed Frey's placement on administrative leave pending a review of the reported information. U.S. Senators representing Nevada called for a federal investigation into the Nevada Southern Detention Center following the Vice report. Immigration attorneys who represented detainees at the facility described the situation as reflecting systemic problems with oversight of private detention contractors.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
No criminal charges were filed against Frey. No public record establishes whether CoreCivic dismissed him, reinstated him, or transferred him. ICE declined to confirm whether it requested any specific review of the facility's personnel in connection with the reporting.
|
||||
|
||||
### Screening Gap
|
||||
|
||||
The Frey case illustrated a gap in the background screening processes of private prison contractors operating under federal immigration enforcement contracts. The Iron March database enabled the identification, but Frey's Iron March posts had been publicly accessible in principle from 2016 to 2017 before the forum's closure and might have been surfaced through earlier monitoring. The [[Nevada Independent]] and [[KUNR Public Radio]] provided additional regional coverage of the political response to the identification.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Vice. "ICE Detention Center Captain Was on a Neo-Nazi Website and Wanted to Start a White Nationalist Group." January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ice-detention-center-captain-was-on-a-neo-nazi-website-and-wanted-to-start-a-white-nationalist-group/; Iron March Dossiers. "Travis Frey: CoreCivic Chief of Security and Iron March Fascist in Nevada." January 5, 2020. https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2020/01/05/travis-frey-corecivic-chief-of-security-and-iron-march-fascist/
|
||||
[^2]: Vice. "ICE Detention Center Captain With Neo-Nazi Ties Was Just Placed on Leave." January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ice-detention-center-captain-with-neo-nazi-ties-was-just-placed-on-leave/; Nevada Current. "ICE facility captain's neo-Nazi links reflect systemic racism, immigration lawyers say." January 8, 2020. https://nevadacurrent.com/2020/01/08/ice-facility-captains-neo-nazi-links-reflect-systemic-racism-immigration-lawyers-say/
|
||||
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- GreggyCult
|
||||
- ChildExploitation
|
||||
- CSAM
|
||||
- FederalCase
|
||||
- NewMexico
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||
summary: "Zachary Dosch, alias 'Moist Nigerian,' was an Albuquerque, New Mexico leader of Greggy's Cult who pleaded guilty in 2022 to cyberstalking and child pornography charges and faced further indictment in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York alongside four co-defendants."
|
||||
born: 1999
|
||||
location: "Albuquerque, New Mexico"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Zachary Dosch]], alias "Moist Nigerian," is a resident of [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]] and a named leader of [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the Cult of Greg), the online child exploitation network that operated on [[Discord]] from approximately January 2020 through January 2021. He was born approximately 1999 and was 26 at the time of his December 2025 indictment.
|
||||
|
||||
### Prior Conviction
|
||||
|
||||
Dosch pleaded guilty in 2022 to cyberstalking and child pornography charges arising from related conduct. His sentencing on those charges had not yet occurred as of December 2025, when the new Greggy's Cult indictment was returned.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Greggy's Cult Methods
|
||||
|
||||
Greggy's Cult directed minor victims to engage in sexually explicit and degrading conduct on video calls hosted on Discord or other video conferencing platforms. The group also engaged in coordinated extortion of both minor and adult victims, including schemes to frame adult victims as pedophiles and to send malware to minor victims' computers, using the resulting leverage to compel ongoing compliance with degrading acts on camera. Encouragement of victims to commit suicide and to insert household objects into their genitals was documented in DOJ filings.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Federal Charges (United States v. Bermudez, 1:25-cr-00361)
|
||||
|
||||
A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] returned an indictment unsealed on December 2, 2025, charging Dosch alongside [[Hector Bermudez]], [[Rumaldo Valdez]], [[David Brilhante]], and [[Camden Rodriguez]]. The case number is 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC). The 10-count indictment charged: engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, conspiracy to produce child pornography, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, and conspiracy to communicate interstate threats. The alleged criminal conduct covered January 2020 through January 2021.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
No outcome had been publicly reported on Dosch's 2022 guilty plea sentencing or the new indictment as of May 2026.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: ABC News. "DOJ charges former Navy petty officer, 4 others for alleged roles in 'monstrous' online extortion group." December 2025. https://abcnews.com/US/doj-charges-former-navy-petty-officer-4-alleged/story?id=128072704
|
||||
[^2]: DOJ OPA. "Five Leaders of 'Greggy's Cult' Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-leaders-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet; United States v. Bermudez et al., 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC) (E.D.N.Y.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71984626/united-states-v-bermudez/
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