Racist global underworld: Sacramento-area woman allegedly fostered terrorism in online chat

An Elk Grove woman arrested Friday has been accused of with members in countries around the globe. Dallas Erin Humber, 34, is accused of fostering a loosely connected online haven for extremists seeking to incite a race war. In pursuit of ways to “accelerate” violent clashes around the globe to speed up the creation of a white ethnostate, the conspirators looked to radicalize new recruits and incentivize their violent ideations, calling attackers “saints” and promising to commemorate those who succeeded, authorities said.

One document that was in the works, called the “Saint Encyclopedia,” included mugshots of white supremacist killers and still photographs from a shooter’s 2019 livestream of a Christchurch, New Zealand, massacre, which killed 51 Muslims attending prayer services. The network of communications channels, group chats and archives was built on the social media app Telegram and is known as “Terrorgram.” The activities on the platform and charges against alleged co-conspirator Matthew Allison, a 37-year-old Boise resident, were detailed in a 37-page indictment released Monday by the Justice Department.



The Telegram web was replete with instructional manuals for how to make bombs, videos valorizing past attacks motivated by racist ideologies, detailed instructions for targeting important infrastructure and words of encouragement for any would-be attackers. Humber appeared Monday in federal court in downtown Sacramento on Monday, where a public defender entered not guilty pleas on her behalf. Allison is scheduled to appear in court in Idaho on Tuesday afternoon.

Here are some of the international terrorist attacks that federal authorities linked to Allison and Humber, and documented in the indictment. Slovakia A 19-year-old Slovakian and injured a third in a shooting at an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava in October 2022. He then killed himself.

Before the attack, the shooter authored a manifesto and sent it to Allison, “thanking Terrorgram for inspiring and guiding him.” A section of “Recommended Reading” included one of the Terrorgram’s documents, which the shooter called a “practical” guide to carrying out their agenda. Humber later created an audiobook version of the manifesto.

Humber one day after the shooting posted a “New Saint Announcement” thanking the 19-year-old and calling him “Terrorgram’s very first Saint.” Before his attack, the shooter had been in “frequent” conversation with Allison and Humber online, prosecutors wrote. New Jersey In July, an 18-year-old was in New Jersey.

He had been an active member of Allison and Humber’s Telegram group chats, and had thanked other members for sending him “accelerationist propaganda” videos created or spread by Allison. Humber in January sent the 18-year-old an audiobook of a manifesto she had narrated in response to the attacker asking for a recommended documentary. One of Allison’s videos had recommended a particular method to break an electrical transformer; the New Jersey attacker recommended that an accomplice — who turned out to be an undercover agent — use the same method.

Turkey In mid-August, an 18-year-old from Turkey was arrested in the outside a mosque in a city southeast of Istanbul. He wrote in his manifesto that he had used Terrorgram’s documents to plan his attack, and also shared the 2022 manifesto of the Slovakian attacker. Humber in a post after the stabbing wrote: “He included the Terrogram books and other Saint manifestos in his file dump, gives shoutouts to the other Saints in his manifesto .

.. But he’s not White so I can’t give him an honorary title.

We still celebrating his attack tho, he did it for Terrorgram.” In a separate instance last December, Allison encouraged another user who had expressed his plans to commit a mass shooting, the indictment said. “Wish you the best in everything homie,” Allison wrote to him.

Humber and Allison also allegedly helped manage a list of people targeted for assassinations, including an unnamed U.S. senator, a federal district judge and a former U.

S. attorney. The list included officials’ names, photographs and home addresses.

Humber and Allison’s arrests came less than two weeks after authorities in France detained Telegram’s billionaire founder, Pavel Durov, on charges connected to the illicit networks that have been created on the app. The arrest came as part of a wide-ranging investigation into illegal activity on the platform, . The Sacramento Bee’s Ishani Desai and Michael McGough contributed to this story.

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