Woman pleaded guilty to a Neo-Nazi plot to attack multiple energy substations surrounding Baltimore

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Neo-Nazi Brandon Russell went to St. Andrew’s and grew up right in the Bahamas! His trial is about to begin!

Brandon Russell

https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/2-arrested-plotting-attack-baltimore-power-grid-96928921

MARYLAND| A Maryland woman who pleaded guilty to a neo-Nazi plot to attack multiple energy substations surrounding Baltimore was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years in prison and a lifetime of supervision upon her release, according the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland.

Sarah Beth Clendaniel pleaded guilty in May to federal conspiracy and firearms charges.

Clendaniel communicated her plans to use a high-powered rifle to shoot through key infrastructure at five substations that the U.S. government estimated could have caused roughly $75 million in damage, had the plot not been foiled, according to prosecutors.

Clendaniel and a co-defendant still set to face trial, Brandon Russell — who co-founded the neo-Nazi group AtomWaffen — believed the destruction of the substations would lead to a “cascading failure” of Baltimore’s electrical grid that would “permanently completely lay this city to waste,” Clendaniel said in recorded conversations with a confidential informant, according to federal prosecutors.

Russell had been incarcerated when the two first met, stemming from a 2018 conviction related to his possession of an unregistered destructive device, officials said.