Brandon Russell, 29, encouraged Sarah Beth Clendaniel to carry out a series of “sniper attacks” on electrical substations around Baltimore that could have caused significant damage to the regional power grid.

A federal jury found 29-year-old Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, guilty after a six-day trial, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

Brandon Russell, the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group, was convicted Monday of conspiring to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid. Russell encouraged his former girlfriend Sarah Beth

A white supremacist leader was convicted in federal court of conspiring with a Maryland woman to attack the state’s power grid to further their racially motivated violent extremist beliefs. A jury found Brandon Russell,