#FederalCase
52 entries tagged FederalCase.
People (42)
- Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh 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.
- Alexander Lightner Alexander Lightner is a Venice, Florida Terrorgram Collective member who threatened a mass casualty event in a private Terrorgram chat in December 2023, was arrested by the FBI in January 2024, and was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a self-made firearm silencer.
- Alexis Aldair Chavez 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.
- Andrew Takhistov Andrew Takhistov is an East Brunswick, New Jersey Terrorgram Collective member arrested July 10, 2024, charged with soliciting destruction of two PSE&G electrical substations in New Jersey after conducting reconnaissance with an undercover FBI employee and receiving tactical advice from a Russian contact.
- Baron Cain Martin Baron Cain Martin, alias 'Convict,' is the first person in the United States charged under a federal terrorism statute as an alleged 764 Network member, with DOJ using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located overseas.
- Brandon Russell Brandon Russell is the Florida neo-Nazi who founded Atomwaffen Division in 2015, whose post-prison arc from August 2021 through his February 2023 arrest demonstrates the structural failure of supervised release to address ideologically committed violent extremists.
- Camden Rodriguez Camden Rodriguez, aliases 'oHare' and 'carroteater,' was a Longmont, Colorado 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.
- Cameron Shea Cameron Brandon Shea, alias 'Krokodil,' was Atomwaffen Division's national recruiter and co-organizer of the Operation Erste Saule intimidation campaign, sentenced to 36 months in federal prison in 2021.
- Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS) Christopher Jackson is the FBI confidential human source designated CHS-1 in the 2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy case, whose testimony was central to Brandon Russell's 2025 conviction and whose undisclosed pre-testimony payment became the basis for Russell's denied new-trial motion.
- Clint Borge 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.
- Collin Walker Collin John Thomas Walker, alias 'Wrath' and 'O9A.WRATH', was a CVLT co-leader from Bridgeton, New Jersey who pleaded guilty in October 2025 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and is scheduled for sentencing before Judge Hernan D. Vera in the Central District of California.
- Conor Climo 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.
- Dallas Humber Dallas Humber is an Elk Grove, California woman who led the Terrorgram Collective's inner circle from July 2022, was charged in a 15-count indictment under case number 2:24-cr-00257 in the Eastern District of California, pleaded guilty to all counts on August 8, 2025, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on December 19, 2025.
- David Brilhante 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.
- Devon Arthurs 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.
- Ethan Phelan Melzer Ethan Phelan Melzer was a U.S. Army paratrooper and O9A member who in 2020 leaked his unit's classified deployment information to a believed ISIS-connected contact to enable a lethal attack on his platoon, sentenced to 45 years in federal prison.
- Guilherme Von Neutegem Guilherme Von Neutegem was a Toronto-area Order of Nine Angles adherent who in 2020 fatally stabbed mosque caretaker Mohamed-Aslim Zafis in Rexdale, Ontario and was found not criminally responsible by reason of schizophrenia in 2023.
- Hector Bermudez 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.
- Jarrett William Smith Jarrett William Smith was a U.S. Army Specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to 30 months in federal prison in 2020 for distributing IED-making instructions to undercover FBI agents.
- Jeffrey Roussel Jeffrey Roussel is a Quebec City resident charged in April 2026 under Canadian terrorism statutes for promoting 764 via Telegram, among the first prosecutions under Canada's December 2025 terrorist entity designation of 764.
- John Cameron Denton 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.
- Justin Sher Justin Sher is a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section and the lead federal prosecutor on 764 Network terrorism cases, including the first-ever terrorism charge against a 764 member in United States v. Martin.
- Kaleb Cole 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.
- Kaleb Merritt Kaleb Christopher Merritt, alias 'eTerror', was a CVLT leader already serving 33 years in Virginia for abducting and raping minors when he pleaded guilty on March 26, 2026 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise in the federal CVLT prosecution.
- Kyle Spitze Kyle William Spitze, alias 'Criminal,' is a Maryville, Tennessee 764/Harm Nation member who pleaded guilty in December 2024 in the Eastern District of Tennessee to CSAM production and animal crushing charges, facing 30 years to life at sentencing.
- Leonidas Varagiannis Leonidas Varagiannis (alias 'War') is a U.S. citizen who co-led 764 Inferno with Prasan Nepal, arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with running a child exploitation enterprise, contesting extradition as of mid-2026.
- Liam Collins (AWD) 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.
- Matthew Robert Allison 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.
- Michail Chkhikvishvili 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.
- Nicholas Welker Nicholas Welker, alias 'King ov Wrath,' was a San Jose-based Feuerkrieg Division leader and Order of Nine Angles adherent who in 2023 posted death threats against a Brooklyn journalist and was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison in April 2024.
- Noah Lamb Noah Lamb is a Terrorgram Collective member indicted June 26, 2025 in the Eastern District of California for assembling 'The List,' a dossier-style hit list targeting U.S. senators, federal judges, a former attorney general, business leaders, journalists, and activists, facing 85 years across eight federal counts with no plea or trial outcome as of May 2026.
- Patrik Jordan Mathews Patrik Jordan Mathews was a former Canadian Armed Forces Reserve combat engineer and Base member who was sentenced to nine years in U.S. federal prison in October 2021 for firearms and immigration charges related to a planned mass attack at a Virginia gun rally.
- Prasan Nepal Prasan Nepal (alias 'Trippy') co-led the 764 Inferno child exploitation enterprise with Leonidas Varagiannis, arrested in High Point, North Carolina in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with CSAM production and related offenses.
- Richard Tobin Richard Tobin is a Brooklawn, New Jersey member of The Base who organized 'Operation Kristallnacht,' directing coordinated synagogue vandalism across two U.S. cities in 2019 and sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison.
- Rohan Rane Rohan Rane is an Indian national who as a 23-year-old business school student in Antibes, France founded CVLT in 2019, the Discord-based child exploitation network that pioneered the sextortion-to-self-harm coercion model subsequently replicated by 764.
- Rumaldo Valdez Rumaldo Valdez was a U.S. Navy petty officer stationed in Hawaii and Greggy's Cult member, sentenced to 97 months for child pornography possession in March 2026, with additional EDNY charges pending.
- Samuel Woodward Samuel Woodward was an Atomwaffen Division member who in January 2018 stabbed gay Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein 28 times in California; convicted of hate crime murder in 2024 and sentenced to life without parole.
- Sarah Beth Clendaniel 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.
- Shahriar J Shahriar J., alias 'White Tiger,' is a 21-year-old dual German-Iranian national arrested in Hamburg in June 2025 and facing 204 charges including murder as a 764 Network operator who allegedly coerced a 13-year-old American into a livestreamed suicide in 2022.
- Skyler Philippi Skyler Philippi is a Columbia, Tennessee man with prior Atomwaffen Division and National Alliance affiliations who pleaded guilty September 9, 2025, to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction by deploying a drone loaded with C-4 against a Nashville-area electrical substation.
- Tony Christopher Long Tony Christopher Long is a Porterville, California 764 network member federally indicted in October 2025 on six counts including animal crushing and sexual exploitation of a minor.
- Zachary Dosch 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.
Organizations (4)
- 764 Inferno 764 Inferno is the elite inner cell of the 764 network operating a Lorebook CSAM economy, led by Leonidas Varagiannis and Prasan Nepal at the time of their April 2025 RICO arrests in the District of Columbia.
- Harm Nation Harm Nation is a 764 splinter network that emerged around 2022, characterized by CSAM production and animal crushing content, with Kyle Spitze of Maryville, Tennessee as its most documented prosecuted member.
- Scattered Spider Scattered Spider is a Cyber Com cybercriminal group of English-speaking teenagers and young adults known for SMS phishing, SIM swapping, and ransomware against major corporations, with at least eight members charged or convicted as of mid-2026.
- The Base The Base is a neo-Nazi accelerationist paramilitary network founded in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro, designated a terrorist organization by Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the EU, whose members received over 100 combined years of prison sentences before the group rebuilt as an internationally operating cell network by 2025.
Events (6)
- 2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy In February 2023, AWD founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Beth Clendaniel were arrested for conspiring to simultaneously destroy five Baltimore Gas and Electric substations, resulting in 20-year and 18-year federal sentences respectively and exposing documented failures of post-conviction supervision and FBI intelligence integration.
- Operation Kristallnacht (The Base) Operation Kristallnacht was a September 2019 coordinated campaign organized through The Base's online channels by Richard Tobin that directed members to vandalize synagogues across the United States, resulting in federal civil rights convictions in New Jersey and Wisconsin.
- United States v. Humber United States v. Humber (2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal.) is the primary U.S. federal prosecution of the Terrorgram Collective's inner leadership, charging Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison on 15 counts including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists under 18 U.S.C. 2339A, resulting in Humber's 30-year sentence in December 2025.
- United States v. Martin (4-25-cr-00190) United States v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190, is the first federal prosecution to charge a 764 Network member under a terrorism statute, using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located overseas.
- United States v. Rane et al. (2-25-cr-00040) United States v. Rane et al. (2:25-cr-00040) is the Central District of California federal prosecution of four CVLT leaders charged in January 2025 with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g).
- United States v. Shea et al. (2020) United States v. Shea et al. is the 2020 federal case in the Western District of Washington in which Atomwaffen Division members were charged with conspiring to threaten journalists and activists, and through which Joshua Caleb Sutter's FBI informant status was first publicly revealed.