A US court has convicted the founder of a neo-Nazi group who planned to destroy the Baltimore power grid in an attempt to accelerate racial violence, the US Justice Department said Tuesday. Brandon Russell,

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.

The Florida leader of a Neo-Nazi group has been found guilty of planning to attack the Maryland power grid. Brandon Russell, 29, of Orlando, was found guilty in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore of one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility after the jury deliberated for less than an hour following a six-day trial.

Brandon Russell, a 29-year-old neo-Nazi leader from Orlando, Fla., faces up to 20 years in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of conspiring to damage a Maryland energy facility.

A Neo-Nazi group leader and Orlando, FL resident was found guilty of conspiracy to damage an energy facility, officials said.From at least November 2022 to Febr

Neo-Nazi Brandon Russell is convicted of plotting to blow up Baltimore’s power grid as part of plan to sew chaos in the city. His co-defendant, Sarah Beth Clendaniel, earlier pleaded guilty in the case.

An avowed neo-Nazi has been convicted of plotting an attack on energy infrastructure with the goal of "lay [ing] waste to the city of Baltimore."

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.