The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said they arrested two people who were allegedly attempting to attack a Maryland power grid.
In a news conference on Monday, FBI and Department of Justice officials said that Sarah Clendaniel of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, allegedly plotted to shoot “multiple electrical substations in the Baltimore area” and wanted to “completely destroy this whole city.”
“These plans were stopped thanks to the swift action and collaboration of our federal, state, and local enforcement partners,” U.S. Attorney of Maryland Erek Barron said in the press conference.
An FBI official told reporters that the agency views the suspects as “racially or ethnically motivated extremists.”…