Baltimore – The founder of Neo-Calls based in Florida was convicted on Monday for conspiracies with his ex-girlfriend to plan an attack on Maryland Network in their common racist.
Brandon Russell, 29, encouraged Sarah Beth Clendaniel to carry out Series “Sniper attacks” On electric substations around Baltimore, which could cause significant damage to the regional power network, according to federal prosecutors. Their goal was to create chaos in most black town, they say prosecutors.
The two were arrested in February 2023. – Before the plans were performed.
The jury 12 people thought less than an hour after listening about four days of testimony in the Federal Court in Baltimore. They found Russell guilty of one plot of conspiracy for damage to the energy facility, only the charge faced.
Russell will be sentenced later. He appeared in court carrying a bright blue jacket and glasses. He is regularly transferred to his lawyer during the trial, looking merry and engaged.
A few years ago Russell was facing Neonaryn’s Atomffene Division, which is German for “Atomic Weapons”.
It was not his first entry with the implementation of the law. Russell had previously guilty of possession of an unregistered destructive device and irregular storage of explosive materials after researchers searched his home and found the tense of high explosive materials and the cache of neo-nacist signs, posters, books and flags.
During the final words on Monday afternoon, MR. Joseph Baldwin recounted the trial, including the confidential informant associated with Russel through the telegram of the social media application. Russell introduced Clendaniel and the informant, hoping that a person could help obtain a firearm for use in the attack, according to prosecutors.
“He was a team leader who took care of his warrior,” Baldwin said.
The prosecutors played a recorded phone call in which Russell used the racist expert and asked for secrecy from the informant, tell him: “It’s important that you don’t talk to anyone.”
While the prosecutors claimed that Russell hopes to encourage war in the racing, his defense counsel diminished his participation in the plot, calling the “setting from the very beginning.”
Russell was in Florida, all the time without travel plans to Maryland and actively helping the attack, said Lawyer Ian Goldstein. Russell may have supported the efforts to the disorder of modern society and restore white supremacy, but he was not a co-conspirator in this case, Goldstein said during the final argument.
“He was a fan – he’s awful as it sounds,” Goldstein said, admitting “repulsive” ideology of his client. “It was him, and that’s not illegal.”
It was not enough for the jury to convince. Before jurors started on Monday, the U.S. District James Bradar told them that the guilt judgment would demand that Russell “engaged, advised or helped” in the conspiracy of his goals.
Russell was obviously not on the Radar to carry out the law while the police did not answer Double murder from 2017 In the building of the residential building Tampa and found it outside the crying, dressed in military tired. One of his roommates killed the other two, officials said.
The police concluded Russel that there was nothing to do with deadly shots. But detectives discovered, explosive materials and neo-nazi accessories in Russell’s possession, including the flyers who said, are prepared for war “and a framed photo of the city of Oklahoma Bombeigh Timothy Mcveigh.
Russell was at the time at the National Hear Florida and attended the University of South Florida.
Devon Arthurs, which later pleaded guilty To kill his roommates, Detective said that he shot them for teasing his recent conversion in Islam. He also said that he facilitated the terrorist attack of Atomophena and claimed that Russell had materials in the house “Kill civilians and targeted locations such as electrical lines, nuclear reactors and synagogues,” prosecutors said.
In that case, Goldstein represented Russell, when the lawyer claimed that the possession of explosives meant Russell intends to cause them damage. Goldstein said his client was traumatized by the death of his roommates and had already suffered mental health issues. Family members said Russell was just a follower looking for a community and tries to please his friends.
In the end, Russell pleaded guilty of possessing an unregistered destructive device and improper storage of explosive materials. Was sentenced to 2018. years for serving Five years in prison. During the hearing on the sentence, the Federal Judge in Tampi expressed explicit concerns that Russell could fall with the wrong crowd behind bars.
A few years later, federal researchers revealed his relationship with Klandanil, who have similarly had a long history of white beliefs about white supressists.
She and Russell began to exchange letters around 2018. years while they were closed in different facilities. They developed a romantic relationship that continued after they were released from prison, court records show.
Clendaniel, 36, admitted the guilt to draw attacks and was sentenced to 18 years in prison in September.
2025-02-04 00:38:00
