A Neo-Nazi leader and his girlfriend hoped to lay “waste” to Baltimore by attacking multiple electrical substations, Justice Department officials said.
Federal prosecutors on Monday announced charges against Florida resident Brandon Clint Russell, an alleged leader of a Neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division, and Sarah Beth Clendaniel of Maryland, saying the two conspired to destroy an energy facility.
“The FBI believes this was a real threat,” Thomas Sobocinski, special agent in charge of the bureau’s Baltimore field office, told reporters during a Monday news conference. Clendaniel bragged that the attack “would lay this city to waste,” Sobocinski said.
