An Orlando neo-Nazi who plotted to destroy the Baltimore power grid with his girlfriend hoped to start a race war, court documents show.

A neo-Nazi leader accused of plotting to attack Baltimore's power grid has been found guilty of conspiring to damage an energy facility, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Brandon Russell, 29,

Brandon Russell, 29, encouraged Sarah Beth Clendaniel to carry out a series of “sniper attacks” on electrical substations around Baltimore that could have caused significant damage to the regional power grid.

BALTIMORE — A 29-year-old white supremacist has been found guilty of trying to disrupt the Baltimore power grid in 2023.

A white supremacist leader was convicted in federal court of conspiring with a Maryland woman to attack the state’s power grid to further their racially motivated violent extremist beliefs. A jury found Brandon Russell,

Russell’s online evidence of his affiliation to neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division as well as a document finely detailing a plot to take out the transformers were revealed during trial, the report says.