UPDATE 3-FBI arrests two including neo-Nazi leader in plot to attack Baltimore grid
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) – The FBI arrested two people, including a neo-Nazi leader, before they could attack Baltimore’s power grid, officials said on Monday.
The suspects, Brandon Russell from Florida and Sarah Clendaniel from Maryland, were taken into custody last week, officials said in a briefing on Monday. The FBI said the plot was racially motivated but did not provide details. About 62% of Baltimore city residents are Black, according to U.S. Census data.
Russell is a founder of a neo-Nazi group named Atomwaffen Division that works toward “ushering in the collapse of civilization,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks U.S. hate groups.
Reuters was not immediately able to locate attorneys for the two people arrested.
“Clendaniel and Russell conspired and took steps to shoot multiple electrical substations in the Baltimore area aiming to ‘completely destroy this whole city’, but these plans were stopped,” Erek Barron, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, said in the press briefing.
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More and more domestic terrorism. Much of this originates with hate groups and anti-government extremists.