(In actuality, however, the undercover gave Mr. Pendley again met with the undercover FBI employee to pick up what he believed to be explosive devices. He said that although he did not enter the building, he came prepared with a sawed off AR rifle, which he left in his car.
Pendley claimed to have been present at the Jan.
“The main objective is to f*** up the Amazon servers,” he said, adding that he hoped to anger “the oligarchy” enough to provoke a reaction that would convince the American people to take action against what he perceived to be a “dictatorship.”ĭuring that same conversation, Mr. Pendley allegedly told the undercover employee he planned to attack web servers that he believed provided services to the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies. In actuality, the man was an undercover FBI employee. Pendley to an individual who he claimed was his explosives supplier. In late March, the confidential source introduced Mr. He later described how he planned to disguise his car to evade detection by law enforcement. Pendley then showed the source a hand-drawn map of a data center on Smith Switch Road in Virginia, featuring proposed routes of ingress and egress at the facility. In late February, he sent the source a list of data center addresses and said he hoped a successful attack could “kill off about 70% of the internet.” When the source offered to help him obtain C4 explosives to use in the attack, Mr. Pendley admitted that he disclosed his plan to blow up a prominent tech company’s data center to a confidential human source via Signal, an encrypted messaging app, in January. We ask the public to stay vigilant and to continue reporting suspicious or threatening behavior to law enforcement.” The defendant sought to cause destruction with an explosive and investigators devised a strategy to disrupt the threat while keeping the public safe from harm. DeSarno said, “The FBI thoroughly investigates all credible threats, and The North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force acted quickly based on information received from a concerned citizen. Bringing to justice domestic extremists remains one of the Department’s top priorities.”įBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. “We may never know how many tech workers’ lives were saved through this operation – and we’re grateful we never had to find out. Pendley’s twisted plot and apprehend the defendant before he was able to inflict any real harm,” said Acting U.S. “Due in large part to the meticulous work of the FBI’s undercover agents, the Justice Department was able to expose Mr. He entered his guilty plea today before U.S. Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was arrested in April after attempting to obtain an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in Fort Worth. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah. A Wichita Falls man who plotted to blow up a data center in Virginia pleaded guilty Wednesday to malicious attempt to destroy a building with an explosive, announced Acting U.S.
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