In an ongoing effort to combat child exploitation, the FBI has intensified its operations against the ‘764’ network, a notorious child-predation group that has increasingly leveraged online platforms to recruit and manipulate minors. Recently, federal agents arrested suspects in Baltimore and Arizona, citing charges that include distributing child pornography and targeting children as young as 11 years old. These actions were underscored by FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who emphasized the gravity of the situation and the FBI’s commitment to dismantling the network, which he described as a “heinous child-exploitation ring.”
Bongino revealed that the FBI has launched over 300 investigations into the network, with the scale of the operation growing as authorities work to dismantle it. The network, named after the ZIP code of its founder, Bradley