Three men with white supremacist ties, including two former U.S. Marines, were sentenced to prison last week after plotting to destroy a power station in the northwestern United States, the New York Times reports. The men received separate sentences on Thursday for charges related to what the Justice Department described as a racially motivated scheme to attack a power grid. The men gathered information on weapons and explosives, manufactured firearms and stole military gear, prosecutors said. Two of the men met through a neo-Nazi online forum and recruited other people to join their scheme, which was rooted in white supremacist ideology, prosecutors said.
The trio completed different tasks for the attack, according to the government. One manufactured firearms. Another, who was stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, stole military gear, and the third, helped to coordinate weapons sales and research a previous attempted attack on a power grid attack, according to court papers. The group conducted training in the desert near Boise, Idaho, according to the Justice Department. They also produced a propaganda video of their training, which featured masked individuals firing assault-type rifles, and ended with a Nazi symbol and the words “Come home white man.”
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