Richard Densmore, a 47-year previous 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 1 rely of sexually exploiting a baby.
764 and its related splinter teams have grown at a breakneck pace over the previous 4 years. For the reason that community’s its creation by a Texas teenager, Bradley Cadenhead, in 2020, felony instances 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 presently serving a long time in Texas state jail for offenses associated to youngster 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 “immediately threaten[s] the nationwide or financial safety of the USA.” In accordance with a federal legislation enforcement official not licensed to talk on the document, the DOJ has seen 764-related instances in each area workplace within the US and presently assigns about 10 such instances for investigation each week.
In a press convention after Thursday’s sentencing, assistant legal professional common Matt Olsen of the Nationwide Safety Division for the primary time immediately addressed 764 as an extremist risk. “This group seeks to do unspeakable hurt to kids to advance their objectives of destroying civilized society, fomenting civil unrest, and in the end collapsing the US Authorities establishments,” Olsen mentioned.
Identified for its members participating in youngster abuse and distributing youngster sexual abuse materials (CSAM), 764 controls its victims via “excessive concern,” federal officers mentioned, utilizing compromising images, 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 purpose of forcing their victims to commit suicide on livestream for the community’s leisure or for the perpetrator’s personal sense of fame inside the 764 community,” Olsen mentioned. “It’s tough to even comprehend such stunning and inhumane violence focused at harmless and susceptible kids.”
