WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials have arrested two people accused of conspiring to “completely destroy Baltimore” in what they described on Monday as a racist plot to demolish the power grid in a predominantly Black city….
Sarah Clendaniel, 27, of Catonsville, Md., and Brandon Russell, 34, of Orlando, Fla., planned to inflict “maximum harm” by targeting five facilities operated by Baltimore Gas and Electric, which serves 1.2 million customers in central Maryland, according to a complaint filed in federal court….
Ms. Clendaniel said that striking all five, in rapid succession, with a “good four or five shots,” would “completely destroy this whole city” by setting off a cascade of power failures and prompting destructive civil disturbances, according to the complaint.
Ms. Clendaniel, who was responsible for carrying out the attacks, boasted that she wanted to “completely lay this city to waste,”
[L]ast month, Ms. Clendaniel confided to the informant that a terminal kidney ailment meant she did not expect to live more than a few months and that she wanted to “accomplish something worthwhile” before she died.
To her, that meant destroying Baltimore, prosecutors said.
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