3 Men Plead Guilty in Plot to Attack U.S. Power Grid

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Dublin man admits to conspiring with 2 other white supremacists to attack U.S. power grids

Eric Lagatta
The Columbus Dispatch
Published 4:40 p.m. ET Feb. 23, 2022 | Updated 7:12 p.m. ET Feb. 23, 2022

Three men, including a Dublin, Ohio, resident pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Columbus to what federal prosecutors say was a domestic terrorist plot motivated by a white supremacist ideology in which they planned to attack power grids throughout the U.S. in an effort to sow unrest and economic instability, and create a race war.

A Greater Columbus man and two out-of-state men who espoused Neo-Nazi beliefs pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Columbus to plotting domestic terrorism attacks on power grids throughout the U.S. in an effort to sow unrest and economic instability.

Christopher B. Cook, 20, who records indicate is a resident of the portion of Dublin, Ohio, in Union County, was part of a group motivated by a white supremacist ideology who began concocting the domestic terrorism plan in fall 2019, according to prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of Ohio. Also charged were Jonathan A. Frost, 24, who has resided in Katy, Texas and West Lafayette, Indiana; and Jackson M. Sawall, 22, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

The group believed damaging or destroying the nation's electric grid would cost the government millions of dollars, create instability and possibly ignite a race war, prosecutors said.

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