According to an indictment released in federal court on Wednesday, a 24-year-old California man collected confidential information on government officials for an assassination hit list, which he then distributed to other members of a terrorist organization called the Terrorgram Collective.
According to the federal grand jury indictment, Noah Jacob Lamb targeted individuals the group believed opposed the cause of white supremacist accelerationism and put their home address, photo, and, in certain cases, their spouse’s photos on the hit list.
According to federal officials, cards with targets on them were circulated in group conversations and private Telegram channels. According to court records, those cards featured a picture of a gun along with a brief explanation of why the targets would be killed.
Lamb is being held in Sacramento County after being taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon. Conspiracy and soliciting the murder of federal authorities are among the eight charges against him.
Whether he had a lawyer or not was not immediately apparent.
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According to reports, a man from Idaho and a woman from the Sacramento area used the Telegram app to celebrate white nationalist attacks, give guidance on how to commit crimes, and compile a list of potential assassination targets.
According to court documents, Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, were indicted in September by authorities for their alleged involvement in the dissemination of multiple Terrorgram publications and videos that encouraged committing particular crimes, including a list of potential assassination targets.
Humber and Allison were charged with being the group’s leaders and collaborating with others to disseminate a digital publication called The Hard Reset that included recipes for pipe bombs, dirty bombs, thermite, napalm, and chlorine gas. The publication was purportedly voiced by Humber, who also distributed it as an audiobook.
According to the U.S. Justice Department, they are each facing 15 counts for plotting to give terrorists material support, soliciting hate crimes, and soliciting the murder of government officers.
Lamb’s input, according to the prosecution, includes suggesting that the list start with a passage from The Turner Diaries, a book about a militia plan that has grown to be a key source of accelerationism among violent extremists and white supremacists. According to the prosecution, Lamb and his accomplices sought to create their own list because they were influenced by the book.
Politicians, state and local officials, corporate executives, activists, and others were among their purported targets.
Federal officials were among those targeted due to their race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity. The Eastern District of California’s acting U.S. attorney, Michele Beckwith, said in a statement. Together with our law enforcement and U.S. Department of Justice partners, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will put in endless effort to look into and bring charges against anyone who violate federal criminal law.
According to the authorities, Lamb collaborated with his suspected co-conspirators between November 2021 and September 2024.
The Terrorgram Collective and three of its members were named as specially designated global terrorists by the State Department in January. Among them were a South African male, a Brazilian national, and a Croatian resident. The gang was implicated in a knife attack at a mosque in Turkey, a planned attack on an energy complex in New Jersey in July 2024, and a shooting outside an LGBTQ+ pub in Slovakia in October 2022.
This report was written by Brittny Mejia, a staff writer for the Times.
