Posted on 02/06/2023 10:28:23 AM PST by House Atreides
The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office officials in Baltimore announced they had arrested two individuals, a man and a woman, with extremist views who were allegedly attempting to attack the power grid in Maryland.
FBI officials told reporters they believe this was a "real threat" that had been thwarted.
Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Clint Russell, 27, of Orlando, Florida, are charged through a federal criminal complaint with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility, Erek L. Barron, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, and Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Sobocinski, of the FBI Baltimore Field Office, announced Monday.
Clendaniel spoke to an FBI informant about her plan just last week, according to authorities. Russell is an alleged neo-Nazi figure who authorities say posted locations of substations.
Clendaniel allegedly told an FBI confidential source that she planned to target five substations including in Norrisville, Reisterstown and Perry Hall, according to an affidavit by Special Agent Patrick W. Straub, of the Joint Terrorism Task Force ("JTTF") in the FBI Baltimore Division….
… The affidavit reveals the two defendants were in separate prisons for past crimes and communicated online. In messages, Clendaniel allegedly referenced Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Hitler. She was in a Maryland prison for robbing convenience stores with a machete. Russell was in prison for holding bomb making materials.…
… This plot is not related to but comes on the heels of several power grid attacks in North Carolina, Washington, and Oregon late last year.
As alleged in the affidavit, Russell conspired to carry out attacks against critical infrastructure, specifically electrical substations, in furtherance of Russell’s "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist beliefs" from at least June 2022 to the present.
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Both these people were already in prison for something else and yet were communicating to each other by computer planning to attack these substations.
Interesting they can zoom in on so-called right wing extremists, but can’t find an Antifa- or Eco-terrorist if their lives depended on it...
Why is this guy out of prison again....
You mean not Trump voters?
I was surprised that the bureau was able to provide agents who weren’t prancing around in front of mirrors, in Melania’s lingerie.
Okay, let me get this straight.
They were both in jail. I’m assuming not in the same cell or floor due to their sexes, but ya never know today.
But anyways, they were in separate jails, and didn’t actually blow up or destroy anything, because they were in jail.
But they talked about it. Via, letters, email, text, but they talked.
Is that the same as doing? Is talking actionable, when one is incarcerated and not able to actually perform the act discussed?
I’m trying to see whether their lawyer can claim a first amendment right to talk about wanting to commit a crime, when the physical ability is not present.
How about 2 paraplegics? People committed to insane asylums? People who are talking trash to get attention?
Smells like the FEB’s are at it again.
Not like Hillary though, her crimes are committed without ill intent.
No reasonable prosecutor,,,,
The guy Ives in a deranged fantasy world. Fortunately he appears to have been ineffectual in everything he fantasized about.
A real mystery for sure!
I’d bet that both you and I have them as well!
Brandon looks like s/he’s wearing a C cup in that photo.
Or find a patsy for a plot that was their own to begin with
If their dead to rights Quilty Kill them within two weeks
“Why is this guy out of prison again....”
The FIBs needed him for their latest headline...
The last time I saw neo-Nazis, they were chasing Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi…
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