It looks like domestic right wing terrorists are going local.
Floridian and Atomwaffen founder Brandon Clint Russell, and local girl gone bad Sarah Beth Clendaniel (Why do terrorists always go by their middle names?) have been charged with conspiracy to attack the power grid.
They intended to shoot up multiple transformers serving Baltimore City, with the intent of reducing the city to to a chaotic hellhole.
I'm offended. Reducing Baltimore hellhole is the job of the Mayor and City Council:
A Catonsville woman and a Florida man were federally charged with conspiracy to attack a Baltimore power grid, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland announced Monday.
Sarah Beth Clendaniel of Catonsville and Brandon Clint Russell of Orlando, Florida, plotted to shoot and destroy multiple electrical substations in the Baltimore region to further their extremist, violent, racial and ethnic beliefs, said U.S. Attorney Erek Barron at a news conference. Russell, 27, is the founder of a neo-Nazi group.
“Identifying and disrupting terrorist plots, both foreign and domestic, is one of the FBI’s top priorities,” said Thomas Sobocinski, an FBI special agent in charge of Baltimore’s task force.
Damaging an electrical substation could cause power outages that would affect hospitals, businesses and homes, he said.
Sobocinski said Russell and Clendaniel, 34, had been planning to attack Maryland substations since June. The two had a personal and online relationship.
Clendaniel plotted to secure a rifle to carry out the attack on five electrical substations, according to the criminal complaint. Russell shared maps of the energy facilities and discussed how to inflict maximum chaos on the local power grid by attacking several substations at once, Sobocinski said.
“The accused were not just talking but taking steps to fulfill their threats and further their extremist goals,” Sobocinski said. “Russell provided instructions and location information. He described attacking the power transformers as the ‘greatest thing somebody can do.’ In her own words, Clendaniel said she was ‘determined to do this.’ She added it would ‘lay this city to waste.’”
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In 2016, Clendaniel was sentenced to five years in prison for armed robbery for wielding a large butcher knife at several Cecil County convenience stores. She told the FBI informant in January she has a terminal kidney illness and wanted to “accomplish something worthwhile” before she died. Her plan was to shoot at the substation while the informant acted as a getaway driver.
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Russell was sentenced in 2017 to five years in federal prison for possessing numerous chemicals used to create explosives. He told law enforcement officers that he started his own local violent extremist group with Nazi beliefs called the “Atomwaffen.” His three roommates were members of Atomwaffen until one murdered the other two in 2017 for bullying him after he converted to Islam, according to the criminal complaint.
Nick and Nora Charles they ain't.
You know, I am getting sick and tired of this sh%$.
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