DOJ Charges 2 US Leaders of Transnational Terror Group

Published on September 9, 2024

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has arrested two leaders of an online transnational terrorist group operating on Telegram. On Friday, the DOJ indicted 34-year-old Dallas Humber of Elk Grove, California, and 37-year-old Matthew Allison, of Boise, Idaho, for hate crime and murder solicitation and conspiring to support terrorists. Humber and Allison both allegedly communicated on Telegram and were known as the Terrorgram Collective, a network of users who promoted white supremacy. “Today’s indictment charges the defendants with leading a transnational terrorist group dedicated to attacking America’s critical infrastructure, targeting a hit list of our country’s public officials, and carrying out deadly hate crimes—all in the name of violent white supremacist ideology,”  Attorney General Merrick Garland said. ...