Three men who plotted to attack electricity substations in a white supremacist bid to sow national unrest have pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorism, the U.S. Justice Dept. says.
The three plotted to shoot at power substations and planned to kill themselves with fentanyl "suicide necklaces" if they were thwarted by authorities, the Justice Department says.Three men who plotted to attack electricity substations in a white supremacist bid to sow national unrest pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorism, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
The three had planned to kill themselves with"suicide necklaces" containing fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid, if law enforcement came upon them before they were successful, prosecutors said. When police initiated a traffic stop on Sawall and Cook in Ohio before they could carry out key aspects of their plan, Sawall took his portion of fentanyl but survived.“These defendants conspired to use violence to sow hate, create chaos, and endanger the safety of the American people,” U.S.
Frost and Cook met in an online chat group in fall 2019, and Sawall joined the trio by the end of the year, prosecutors said. Frost had the idea of attacking the power grid, and the three set out to recruit possible participants, they said. "They had conversations about how the possibility of the power being out for many months could cause war, even a race war, and induce the next Great Depression," according to the Justice Department statement.
It's not clear how the plot unraveled and the case remained under seal. The case was investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Columbus, Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Houston.
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