Richard Densmore, a 47-year outdated Military veteran and member of the noxious criminal network known as 764, was sentenced to 30 years in federal jail on Thursday by a federal choose in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Densmore was arrested on federal charges in late January at a house in Kaleva, Michigan, the place he lived along with his grandmother. He pleaded responsible in July to at least one depend of sexually exploiting a toddler.
764 and its related splinter teams have grown at a breakneck pace over the previous 4 years. Because the community’s its creation by a Texas teenager, Bradley Cadenhead, in 2020, legal circumstances related it have cropped up in at the very least seven US states, in addition to Brazil, Canada, the UK, and a number of European nations. Cadenhead is at the moment serving many years in Texas state jail for offenses associated to little one sexual abuse imagery.
Due to 764’s ties to extremist ideologies like neofascist accelerationism and the Order of Nine Angles, the US Division of Justice and the FBI categorizes 764 as a “tier one/category 1” terrorism risk that “straight threaten[s] the nationwide or financial safety of the USA.” In accordance with a federal regulation enforcement official not approved to talk on the document, the DOJ has seen 764-related circumstances in each area workplace within the US and at the moment assigns about 10 such circumstances for investigation each week.
In a press convention after Thursday’s sentencing, assistant legal professional normal Matt Olsen of the Nationwide Safety Division for the primary time straight addressed 764 as an extremist risk. “This group seeks to do unspeakable hurt to kids to advance their targets of destroying civilized society, fomenting civil unrest, and in the end collapsing the US Authorities establishments,” Olsen mentioned.
Recognized for its members participating in little one abuse and distributing little one sexual abuse materials (CSAM), 764 controls its victims by means of “excessive worry,” federal officers mentioned, utilizing compromising pictures, private info, and the specter of public publicity to extort minors into sexual exploitation or self-harm.
“Many members [of this network] have an finish aim of forcing their victims to commit suicide on livestream for the community’s leisure or for the perpetrator’s personal sense of fame throughout the 764 community,” Olsen mentioned. “It’s troublesome to even comprehend such stunning and inhumane violence focused at harmless and weak kids.”
