In a recent development, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has handed down prison sentences to three men for their prolonged plot to sabotage a power grid in the northwestern United States.
The convicted individuals were linked to a Neo-Nazi parliamentary group, which had meticulously researched methods to incapacitate power substations using automatic rifles in Idaho and neighboring states.
According to The Post Millennial, the group is accused of unlawfully manufacturing and selling firearms, as well as pilfering military equipment between 2017 and 2020. During this period, two of the individuals were serving in the US Marine Corps at Camp Lejune in North Carolina, as ABC News reported.
Liam Collins, a 25-year-old New York resident, was the group's recruiter, using a web forum to attract members to his Neo-Nazi parliamentary group. Collins has been sentenced to a decade behind bars for aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of unregistered firearms.
Paul James Kryscuk, 38, also a New Yorker, collaborated with Collins via the forum. Together, they established a guerilla organization armed with rifles, which they dubbed a "modern-day SS" with the objective to "take back the land that is rightfully ours," as stated in the indictment.
The DOJ has sentenced Kryscuk to six and a half years in prison for conspiracy to destroy an energy facility. Justin Wade Hermanson, 25, who served at the same US Marine Corps base as Collins, received a sentence of one year and nine months for conspiracy to manufacture and ship firearms between states.
The group's initial meeting took place in Boise, Idaho, after Kryscuk relocated there in 2020 and recorded a live-fire weapons training session. The group's plot to dismantle the Northwestern power grid was revealed by prosecutors. Authorities found a handwritten note in Kryscuk's possession, listing 12 locations in Idaho and other states housing transformers and substations.
The law caught up with Kryscuk and Collins on November 25, 2020, when they were apprehended following arrest warrants issued by the Eastern District of North Carolina. Hermanson was arrested three months later, on January 28, 2021, on a separate warrant. The swift action of the DOJ in this case underscores the importance of vigilance and swift justice in preserving the nation's security and infrastructure.
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