Federal agents arrested a 24-year-old Tennessee man on Nov. 2, charging him over attempts to destroy an energy facility in Nashville with a weapon of mass destruction.
The FBI undercover agents uncovered Skyler Philippi’s alleged plan to attack a Nashville power grid and arrested him moments before he strapped explosives onto a drone in Franklin, Tennessee, and deployed them to their intended targets.
“As charged, Skyler Philippi believed he was moments away from launching an attack on a Nashville energy facility to further his violent white supremacist ideology—but the FBI had already compromised his plot,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a Nov. 4 statement. “This case serves as yet another warning to those seeking to sow violence and chaos in the name of hatred by attacking our country’s critical infrastructure: the Justice Department will find you, we will disrupt your plot, and we will hold you accountable.”…