Crime & Safety
NorCal Woman Ran 'Violent' White Supremacist Group From Comfort Of Her Suburban Home: Feds
She used online platforms to "celebrate violence and solicit attacks that took the lives of innocent people," federal prosecutors said.
ELK GROVE, CA — A woman has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for her role in leading a "violent" white supremacist group out of her Northern California home, according to the Department of Justice.
Dallas Humber, 35, was sentenced last month after being convicted of soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, according to the Department of Justice.
"Humber actively encouraged violence against, and the murder of, individuals based on their race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity,” U.S. Attorney Eric Grant for the Eastern District of California said in a December statement “Our office remains committed to working with our law enforcement partners and with other Department of Justice components to stop these hate-fueled crimes and to ensure the safety of all people and public officials.”
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Federal prosecutors say Humber led the transnational group, "Terrorgram Collective," from the "comfort of her suburban California home" from July 2022 to September 2024.
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"To achieve their ends, she and other members of the Terrorgram Collective solicited individuals to commit hate crimes, terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure, and assassinations," federal prosecutors said. "They provided technical, inspirational, and operational guidance to equip those individuals to plan, prepare for, and successfully carry out those attacks."
Some of those attacks included the fatal shooting of two people at an LGBT bar in Slovakia, another deadly shooting at two schools in Brazil that left four people dead and the stabbing of five people outside a mosque in Turkey, according to federal prosecutors.
Other people, inspired by Humber and her terrorist group, plotted other attacks, including one on an energy facility in New Jersey, a bombing at an energy facility in Tennessee, the murder of two people in Wisconsin in an effort to try and kill a federal official and the attempted assassination of an Australian official, authorities said.
The sentencing, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said, sent the "unmistakable message" that anyone who plots acts of terror or is involved in any extremist networks that incite violence would be "found, prosecuted and incarcerated for decades."
"This case demonstrates that our prosecutors and law enforcement partners will disrupt these threats and will pursue the maximum penalties the law provides," Dhillon said.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said Humber's incarceration "makes the world a safer place."
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