Elk Grove woman allegedly connected to transnational terrorist group

(FOX40.COM) — An Elk Grove woman is facing more than a dozen charges in connection to a transnational terrorist group known as the Terrorgram Collective, according to the US Department of Justice.

Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho are facing charges in connection to soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials and “conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.”

“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,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland.

According to a statement from Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, the pair used the app Telegram to “provide guidance and instructions for terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure and assassinations of government officials.”

Some of the assassination targets included federal, state, local officials and leaders of non-government organizations who were targeted based on their race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity, according to the DOJ.

Humber and Allison are alleged to also have used the platform to spread white supremacist accelerationism.

The DOJ describes white supremacist accelerationism as “the belief that the white race is superior; that society is irreparably corrupt and cannot be saved by political action; and that violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and accelerate the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate.”

Some of Terrorgrams messaging was allegedly taken into action, according to the DOJ, as a fatal shooting at an LGBT bar in Slovakia, a planned attack on an energy facility in New Jersey and a mass stabbing near a mosque in Turkey are said to be inspired or guided by Terrorgram.

“If convicted of all charges, Humber and Allison each face a maximum penalty of 220 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors,” the DOJ wrote in their new release.

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