White supremacist receives prison in plot to target Baltimore power grid


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  • Thursday, 26 Sep 2024

FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past the U.S. Department of Justice Building, in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Maryland woman affiliated with a neo-Nazi group was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Wednesday after admitting to a plot to attack Baltimore's power grid, according to the U.S. Justice Department and court filings.

Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 36, sought to target five electrical substations around Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, to further a white supremacist ideology that sought the collapse of American society, according to prosecutors.

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