Three men have admitted conspiring "in the name of white supremacy" to attack power grids throughout the U.S. as part of a plan to cause a race war, officials said.
The three men pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Columbus to domestic terrorism charges.
The men, who are from Ohio, Indiana and Texas, believed that attacking and damaging regional power substations would lead to economic turmoil and civil unrest, said Timothy Langan who is assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division.
“These defendants conspired to use violence to sow hate, create chaos, and endanger the safety of the American people,” U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker said in a statement.
Two of the men – 20-year-old Christopher Brenner Cook of Columbus and Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, of Katy, Texas – met in 2019 in an online chat group, according to court documents.
