https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-woman-pleads-guilty-conspiring-destroy-baltimore-region-power-grid

Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 36, of Catonsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to damage or destroy electrical facilities in Maryland.

According to court documents, in 2018, Clendaniel became acquainted with Brandon C. Russell, a Florida resident, who is currently charged with conspiracy to damage or destroy electrical facilities in Maryland and is awaiting trial. Clendaniel and Russell espouse a white supremacist ideology and advocate a concept known as “accelerationism.” To “accelerate” or to support “accelerationism” is based on a white supremacist belief that the current system is irreparable and without an apparent political solution, and therefore violent action is necessary to precipitate societal and government collapse.

Their plans began to culminate on Jan. 12, 2023 when CHS-1 and Russell discussed the planned substation attack in Maryland with a goal of working with Clendaniel to “maximize impact” and “to coordinate to get multiple [substations] at the same time.” Later that same day, Clendaniel, using the moniker “Nythra88,” sent a message to CHS-1 on ECA confirming her support of the attack.

In the ensuing conversation, which continued through Jan. 14, 2023, Clendaniel told CHS-1 that she lived near Baltimore. She also stated that she was a felon, and had previously, but unsuccessfully, attempted to obtain a rifle. She asked CHS-1 to purchase a rifle for her, stating that she wanted to “accomplish something worthwhile” and that she wanted the rifle “within the next couple of weeks” to “accomplish as much as possible before June, at the latest.” On Jan. 18, 2023, on ECA, Clendaniel told CHS-1 that she had identified a few potential locations to target in her attack. CHS-1 stated that CHS-1 would have to be the “driver” and Clendaniel would have to be the “shooter” in the attack. Clendaniel confirmed that she was “determined to do this” and stated she would have done something earlier on her own if she had not lost her rifle “a few months ago.” The conversation continued with CHS-1 and Clendaniel discussing the specifics of the desired rifle and agreeing that Clendaniel would send CHS-1 a “wish list,” which she did the following day.

Clendaniel pleaded guilty to conspiracy and felony possession charges. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on the conspiracy charge and 15 years on the felon in possession charge followed by up to lifetime of supervised release for the conspiracy charge. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept 3.

Sure.

What is ECA and who is CHS-1?

Good luck with that side charging AR.

Encrypted communication applications (ECA)
Confidential Human Source (CHS-1)

Ya know, if I was going to be a domestic terrorist and go after the power system I don't think a firearm would even be on my list of equipment. MAYBE a shotgun with slugs, but it'd be for equipment damage and I'd probably go with something where I could setup multiple devices and then be clear of the area before initiating. Plenty of sub stations are unattended. I assume they have cameras but you'd have a couple minutes. Particularly if you had someone creating a delay for responding police or picked times.

Honestly, that whole story reads like, "FBI agents found an idiot and managed to convince them to do more idiot stuff."

Anytime someone is arrested for a discussion, I always assume the FBI brought up the topic.

The feds are still running their radicalization program, I see.

You could radicalized an army of squirrels.  They seem to do the most power grid damage around here.

You're not giving ATF enough credit.

Congrats FBI once again catching someone you radicalized.

If you don't have enough criminals create some.

The FBI has successfully foiled another FBI criminal conspiracy.

I'm betting 'known to authorities'.

But take down a power station with a small bore, semi-automatic? Not sure Bruce Willis could do that in the best of circumstances.

Is that 'real', or is that something that the fed gov bois invented out of thin air?

Does she have Trump hands or is that an AR10?
Her last charge in MD's case search was 2016, when she was living out in the boonies of Cecil County, Catonsville is much more populated. Typical for MD, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbery in 2016, and the jail term was suspended. With this arrest in 2023, she was sent to jail for violating parole.

I bet the state files charges right before our legislative session starts in January so they can make some antigun drama about how easy it is for nazis to get guns given our current laws, glossing over we've had universal background checks since 2021, all homebuilt guns must be serialized by an FFL, permit to purchase handguns, etc.

Kharn

Yes it's real, but that won't stop some people here from right wing coping.

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Bigger_Hammer

She would've gotten away with it if she just trained squirrels to commit suicide by jumping on power lines at substations.

She was caught when her EV ran out of power

LOL.  Monroe County, NC.  

All you need to do is put holes in the oil filled radiator and the transformer will trip off due to heat.

She's been in prison before and got in with the skinheads, so yeah she was known to authorities.

Lots of enemies want to destroy vital infrastructure.  They really go above and beyond to tag this as accelerationist and WP.

And buy them rifles

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she's bat shit crazy
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POWER STATION YOU SAY?

Maybe she won't lose this one lol

So knocking out power to an area for a few days was going to start the big igloo and bring down the .gov.

Dumbass.

Are we pretending like accelerationism is strictly a white supremacist and right wing ideology?  It's not exclusive to either group.

So, since they didn’t mention politically ideology that I noticed. I guess we can assume it’s just another deranged liberal white supremacist like the Buffalo Shooter?

Are there actually women in GD?  This seems like an urban legend.

No kidding. Knock out the whole grid? No need…

All they had to do was come to GD to know that the easiest way to destroy society is to hack/bring down EBT for a few days. We’d have the purge on our hands in no time.

If destroying our energy system is illegal, FJB should get a million years.

She wanted to go after a sub station?
Drop her on the main grid : Wish granted.

ah, I see it's white supremacy.

Definitely a DC type. She just needs to get polarized properly.

Would it be illegal to air drop peanuts (or trebuchet) over sub stations?

Littering maybe?

Place I worked at prior to my current gig had a substation trip off at least once per summer due to squirrels.

They spent a LOT (metric shit-ton) of money on power conditioners and backup generators for their rather smallish datacenter plus its chillers.

No face tats, I'm surprised.

Kharn

A large plastic plant that I used to work at lost all power due to a cold snake

Judging from what I've seen from Soros-funded Marxists, I'd say the WP and right wing extremists are severely behind the curve on it.

If it's real then it's a fringe group of racist shitheads and criminals that ought to be exposed as such.

How large and how powerful a group is it? Is it a few hundred shitheads strong, or is it on the scale of something like the KKK?

How does it compare in size and effectiveness (and potential threat assessment) to, say, domestic extremist Muslim supremacist or trans-supremacist or black supremacist movements?

The Biden / Obama regimes' DOJs (at least, but not limited to those) have squandered whatever level of implicit trust the DOJ may have had in the past.

So, the DOJ claiming that something is factual is no more believable than, say, MSNBC claiming that something is factual. The DOJ has nobody but themselves to blame for that.

Sort of want.

Hands are kind of manly in the first pick though.

Every Muslim is a terrorist, but every nazi is a government conspiracy... sure, sure.