SACRAMENTO — A Rocklin man has been arrested and charged with possessing guns and destroying texting threads where he and others reportedly discussed plans to attack data centers in California, in conjunction with the alleged planned attack on the White House during this summer’s UFC 250 event in Washington, D.C.
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Christopher Perry, 38, has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and destroying evidence to impede an investigation; the charges against Perry stem from an alleged plot that has made national headlines. Perry is being held in the Sacramento jail after U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Carolyn K. Delaney ordered him held, citing the “strong” weight of evidence, the fact that Perry was on probation at the time, and that the allegations involve “a federal crime of terrorism,” among other factors.
Prosecutors say Perry is one of the men who participated in a chat thread entitled “Lion’s Den,” where members allegedly planned to use drones to bomb the White House and snipe “high value targets,” including government officials.
One of the plot’s alleged leaders — who named himself the “Shepherd” of the Lion’s Den, according to prosecutors — reportedly assigned Perry to a California team that was supposed to target data centers and a specific tech company based in the South Bay. The company, which is not named, is described only as a “prominent software company with offices in California and specializing in data analytics” and has offices in Palo Alto. The data centers allegedly targeted were in Santa Clara, Sacramento, and around San Francisco, according to the criminal complaint.
Perry and the alleged plot leader, Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, discussed plans to carry out data center attacks in June, days before the FBI says the UFC 250 attack was to take place, according to court records. It all unraveled when a 19-year-old Ohio man’s parents called the Knox County Sheriff and told on their son, according to the complaint.
The parents of Tycen Proper told police that he was becoming obsessed with participating in “recon” that involved camping in the woods with guns and ammunition, and that he seemed fixated on “government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities and other government actions.” His mother said he’d been spending time talking with others online who purported to be part of some “Christian-based ideology,” ex-military, and anti-government. Proper later allegedly admitted to plotting the UFC 250 attack and described it in full to the FBI, according to the criminal complaint.
Searches of Proper’s phone let to the discovery of the Lion’s Den chat, which in turn helped the FBI identify Alvarez and four others, but not Perry. Their arrests were announced in June, prompting Perry to delete the Signal app on his phone, according to the complaint. Prosecutors contend this constituted destruction of evidence, a federal crime.
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Perry is also charged with possessing five guns at a safe in his father’s Clear Lake home. All five weapons were inherited from his grandfather, the complaint says. Boxes of ammunition were also found, including one with “WWIII” written on it, the complaint alleges. He’s not allowed to carry guns due to prior convictions, including a 2025 drug conviction in Solano County, for which he is still on probation, court records show.
Federal investigators searched Perry’s Instagram account, where he frequently posts about politics and globalism, including President Donald Trump and the Epstein files. His final Instagram post before his arrest is a video Perry starts by saying, “it’s pretty much common knowledge by now that the world is run by a cabal of satanic pedophiles.”
In his chats with Alvarez, Perry allegedly bragged about being a lifelong criminal who is “armed” but “not supposed to be.”
“I’ve been selling drugs since I was a teenager. I’ve engaged in a slough of different criminal activities ranging from drugs and fraud and others I can’t really speak of,” Perry allegedly wrote. He later said he “prefers non-violence” but is willing to make an exception when “s— hits the fan.”
Alvarez described how various plots would fit together, telling others in the chat that he was organizing groups around the country to take up arms and act, according to the complaint.
“You will when you see it. When that happens. All hell will break loose. At the same time: I have word the multiple teams are making moves on data centers, and ICE camps. Breach, rescue, destroy, sabotage, stall,” Alvarez wrote. “This op will require many teams and leaders. I will coordinate this through. Stand by for further directives.”
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