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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A national expansive assemblage returned a six-count indictment against a 19-year-old Porterville antheral who is allegedly a subordinate of a convulsive extremist radical “764” and participated successful what was described arsenic "animal crushing," according to the Department of Justice.
Federal prosecutors accidental 19-year-old Tony Christopher Long (also known arsenic Inactive, Inactivee0, and inactivecvx) was charged with carnal crushing, intersexual exploitation of a minor, possession of worldly involving the intersexual exploitation of a minor, cyberstalking, and transmitting an interstate threat.
Court documents mention 18 U.S. Code § 48 (animal crushing), which Cornell Law School defines as "conduct successful which 1 oregon much surviving non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, oregon amphibians is purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, oregon different subjected to superior bodily injury."
According to tribunal documents, Long was a subordinate and subordinate of “764,” a transgression enactment of Nihilistic Violent Extremists (NVEs).
"This suspect allegedly engaged successful acts of utmost cruelty by exploiting a child, abusing animals, and threatening unit — his behaviour reflects the depravity of '764'," said Attorney General Pamela Bondi.
NVEs, according to the national Department of Justice, are individuals who prosecute successful transgression behaviour wrong the United States and overseas successful furtherance of political, social, oregon spiritual goals that deduce chiefly from a hatred of society.
Federal officials accidental the radical has a tendency to bring astir a illness via chaos, destruction, and societal instability. NVEs enactment individually oregon arsenic portion of a web to destruct civilized nine done the corruption and exploitation of susceptible populations, which often see minors.
"This indictment charges a constellation of offenses related to the troubling emergence of NVEs similar ‘764’ and related groups," said U.S. Attorney Eric Grant for the Eastern District of California. "My bureau volition vigorously analyse and prosecute offenses committed by NVE groups, including those alleged to person been committed by Long against young and susceptible victims."
The indictment was returned connected Oct. 23 by a expansive assemblage that alleges that successful precocious 2024, Long purposely engaged successful carnal crushing, sexually exploited a juvenile unfortunate surviving successful Washington state, and committed cyberstalking and made online threats against a juvenile unfortunate surviving successful Kern County.
Court documents filed connected Oct. 23 can beryllium viewed by clicking here.
