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.

Brandon Russell, a 29-year-old neo-Nazi leader from Orlando, Fla., faces up to 20 years in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of conspiring to damage a Maryland energy facility.

A neo-Nazi leader accused of plotting to attack Baltimore's power grid has been found guilty of conspiring to damage an energy facility, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Brandon Russell, 29,

Neo-Nazi Brandon Russell is convicted of plotting to blow up Baltimore’s power grid as part of plan to sew chaos in the city. His co-defendant, Sarah Beth Clendaniel, earlier pleaded guilty in the case.

The leader of a neo-Nazi group was found guilty of conspiring to attack Maryland's power grid in a terrorist plot, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Russell’s online evidence of his affiliation to neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division as well as a document finely detailing a plot to take out the transformers were revealed during trial, the report says.