Epoch Times - FBI Cracks Down on 764 Predator Network with 5x More Arrests
Aired: 2025-11-29
Duration: 01:56


=== 764 Network: Protecting Our Children (01:55) ===

[00:00:00]  The protection of our children is one of our biggest priorities here.
[00:00:03]  And the 764 network started in Texas.
[00:00:05]  That's why it's called the 764 network.
[00:00:07]  It was the area code of where it originated.
[00:00:09]  And the original founder of that network is doing 80 years in federal prison, and rightly so.
[00:00:13]  But we made a huge push this year to protect our children against these online predators.
[00:00:18]  And this is the worst of the worst.
[00:00:20]  These individuals are actors throughout America and throughout the world who don't really have a connection to each other in terms of group focus and group mission set.
[00:00:33]  But individually, they subscribe to this ideology that they can prey on our children online.
[00:00:38]  Just to look at the cases we've showed you in North Carolina, D.C., Jersey, and one other state recently.
[00:00:46]  They were preying on kids from 8 to 15 years old, convincing them, these children, to send them nude and sexually explicit pictures, which amount to what we call child sexual pornography, which is a federal offense.
[00:01:00]  What's worse is they were sharing and exchanging information about animal crushing, about torturing animals.
[00:01:07]  What's worse than that is these individuals, these perpetrators, these criminals, were convincing children to mutilate themselves.
[00:01:14]  And in some cases, unfortunately, more than one, these children ended up committing suicide because they were threatened by the perpetrator that we will go public if you tell anyone.
[00:01:25]  And so I said, we are not having this at this FBI.
[00:01:28]  So we made it a mission-set priority to collaborative work against the 764 network.
[00:01:34]  And I'm proud to announce today, Jan, that the number of arrests that this FBI has against 764 network this year alone is up 490% from the same time last year.
[00:01:45]  That's how hard we're going after this disgusting group of individuals, these criminals, and we're not going to stop until we safeguard the online community.
[00:01:54]  And it's a big project, and I'm really appreciative.