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.

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,

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.

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."

A federal jury found 29-year-old Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, guilty after a six-day trial, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

Brandon Russell, the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group, was convicted Monday of conspiring to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid. Russell encouraged his former girlfriend Sarah Beth

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,