Three men who plotted to attack electricity substations in a white supremacist bid to sow national unrest pleaded guilty to providing material support to
Highlights
- Three men plotted to attack electricity substations in a white supremacist bid to sow national unrest, prosecutors say.
- They planned to disrupt the electricity grid in order to sow civil unrest and economic uncertainty in furtherance of their white supremacist cohort, they say.
- The three had planned to kill themselves with “suicide necklaces” containing fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid, if law enforcement came upon them before they were successful.
- They hoped to cause unrest and trigger a race war, but the plot never really got past the planning stage, prosecutors said.
- The allegation of providing material support to terrorism carries with it a maximum sentence of 15 years, the Justice Department says.