Veteran Who Started Neo-Nazi Group Arrested Again, This Time for Targeting a Power Station – By Drew F. Lawrence (Military.com) / Feb 6, 2023
A National Guard veteran and his girlfriend were arrested Friday for allegedly plotting to destroy an electrical substation in Maryland, according to federal prosecutors.
Brandon Clint Russell, a former Guardsman and self-identified Nazi recently released from prison after a 2018 conviction for possessing explosives, and Sarah Clendaniel are accused of conspiring to carry out attacks to further “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism,” according to the complaint
The arrests come on the heels of power grid attacks that peppered East Coast stations in recent months and while experts warn of increased domestic terror plots, including ones that involve service members and veterans with ties to extremist ideologies.
