White Supremacists Plead Guilty in Plot to Disrupt U.S. Power Grid, Start Race War
The three men met in an online chat room and were found in possession of weapons and the necessary components for making an explosive device.
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Three men, Christopher Brenner Cook of Columbus, Ohio, Jonathan Allen Frost of Katy, Texas, and West Lafayette, Indiana, and Jackson Matthew Sawall of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, have pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists after plotting to attack the U.S. power grid in the hopes that the ensuing electricity outages would stir civil and economic unrest that could lead to a race war, reports the Washington Post.
Frost and Cook met in an online chat group and recruited Sawall after circulating a list of readings that promoted neo-Nazism and white-supremacist ideology. The trio gathered in Columbus, Ohio in early 2020 where they trained at a shooting range with a rifle provided by Frost, who later gave them “suicide necklaces” filled with fentanyl, with the agreement that they would all take the drug, which depresses the central nervous system and can cause death should they be caught by law enforcement. Later that year, according to court documents, FBI agents searched the residences of the three men and found “racially motivated violent extremism Nazi material” and weapons, including chemicals and components that were “consistent with someone attempting to test and assemble an explosive device.” All three now face up to 15 years in prison.
