---
born: 2005
category: Extremism & Violent Networks
created: 2026-05-21
location: Texas
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.
tags:
- Person
- CSAM
- ChildExploitation
- Texas
- NetworkFounder
updated: 2026-05-21
---

[Bradley Chance Cadenhead](/people/bradley-chance-cadenhead/), known online as "Felix," is the founder of the [764](/organizations/764-network/) 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](/organizations/cvlt/) network. He is currently serving an 80-year sentence in [Texas](/places/texas/) state prison following his May 2023 conviction on nine counts of child pornography possession.

### Background and Introduction to CVLT

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](/people/rohan-rane/) had pioneered. Cadenhead adapted and extended these methods through the network he subsequently built.[^1]

### Founding 764

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](/people/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](/organizations/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]

### Arrest and Prosecution

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]

[^1]: ARC Research. "CVLT Historical Threat Assessment of the Precursor to 764." https://www.accresearch.org/shortanalysis/svjdmt1twn9ccz0c4uxnbqrauywwcn
[^2]: ADL. "764." Backgrounder. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764