Neo-Nazi Couple Arrested for Plotting to Destroy Baltimore’s Power Grid
Story by Josh Fiallo • 47m ago
Aneo-Nazi couple recently out of prison may soon be back behind bars after they allegedly blabbed to an undercover informant last month that they planned to sabotage power stations in Maryland.
Brandon Russell, 27, and Sarah Clendaniel, 34, are accused of plotting to shoot up five substations that serve the Baltimore area—an attack Clendaniel told a federal informant would be “legendary” if pulled off, the
Washington Post reported, citing a criminal complaint.
Russell and Clendaniel are facing up to 20 years in prison for the foiled attack plan. Their first court appearance will be on Monday in Baltimore federal court.
Russell, a neo-Nazi leader who founded the far-right group Atomwaffen, had been jailed since 2018 for
keeping lethal bomb-making materials in his apartment. Atomwaffen has been known to threaten journalists, African American churches and Jewish organizations. Clendaniel was locked up in a different prison for a spate of convenience store robberies where she wielded a machete and
demanded cash and cigarettes.
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