Texas Man Seth Aaron Pendley Gets 10 Years For Plotting To Blow Up Data Centers

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

October 4, 2021

Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, of Fort Worth was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Oct. 1 for plotting to blow up a data center in Virginia.

He was arrested in April after attempting to obtain an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in Fort Worth. He pleaded guilty in June to malicious attempt to destroy a building with an explosive and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor.

“The Justice Department is constantly on guard for threats posed by violent domestic extremists,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah. “As this case shows, radicals are lurking on the internet, looking for ways to lash out – and far too often, they move their plans off of the web and into the real world. We are indebted to the FBI employee who put his life on the line to disrupt Mr. Pendley’s plot before he could inflict real harm on data center workers, and are proud of today’s sentence.”

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