The sentence comes two months after another man was ordered to serve 33 months in prison for managing the chat room where the crimes were organized.
John Cameron Denton speaks to the crew of a 2018 PBS Frontline documentary examining American hate groups in Texas. (Image courtesy of PBS Frontline)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) — A Texas man known as the former leader of a neo-Nazi extremist group was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in prison for making fake emergency calls targeting journalists, minorities and elected officials.
According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, John Cameron Denton, 27, of Montgomery, Texas, ran a local branch of the Atomwaffen Division, an international white supremacist group linked to arms dealing, murder and other crimes.