The United States Department of Justice has charged a neo-Nazi leader and his associate with plotting to attack Baltimore’s power grid, a plan the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) thwarted with the help of a confidential informant.Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, and Sarah Clendaniel from Maryland were arrested last week, US officials said in a briefing on Monday, and they have been charged with conspiring to damage an energy facility.Russell is a convicted felon and founder of a neo-Nazi group called the Atomwaffen Division that works towards “ushering in the collapse of civilization”, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organisation that tracks US hate groups.
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