Prosecutors will seek 18 year in prison for Sarah Beth Clendaniel, the Catonsville woman who pleaded guilty to conspiring to attack energy stations around Baltimore. (Handout) Prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence the Catonsville woman who conspired with neo-Nazis to knock out Baltimore’s power grid to 18 years imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 36, a Catonsville woman who admitted to scheming with a neo-Nazi accelerationist leader to “lay this city to waste” by attacking power stations around Baltimore, is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 25 in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Prosecutors made the request for prison time in recently filed federal court documents. Prosecutors described Clendaniel as “an unrepentant, violent white supremacist and recidivist who is a true danger to the community” in their sentencing memo. She pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to damage an energy facility and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. A public defender for Clendaniel did not return a request for comment. Advertisement Prosecutors intend to call three witnesses to the sentencing, they said: a ballistics expert, a senior engineering manager from BGE and an FBI agent. The plot Clendaniel confessed to being a part of targeted energy stations around Baltimore, in areas including Reisterstown and Perry Hall. In a recorded phone call, Clendaniel said the attacks would have to “destroy” the cores of transformers, “not just leak the oil.”
via the baltimore banner: Prosecutors seeking 18 years for woman who conspired to attack power grid
siehe auch: Prosecutors seek 18-year prison sentence for woman accused in Neo-Nazi plot to destroy Maryland’s power grid, mother speaks to WJZ. Federal prosecutors are seeking an 18-year prison sentence for Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 36, who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up power stations around Baltimore to destabilize the government in a white supremacist plot. WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren spoke exclusively to the defendant’s mother Friday. Lanette Clendaniel said the sentence recommendation for her daughter is in line with the 15 to 20 years her daughter expected. She previously told Hellgren she does not agree with her daughter’s Neo-Nazi beliefs. Transcripts of recorded phone conversations between Sarah Beth Clendaniel and a confidential informant reveal she was trying to obtain a high-powered rifle to shoot through substations in Reisterstown, Perry Hall, White Marsh, and more locations. (…) In court documents, prosecutors called Sarah Clendaniel an “accelerationist” who believes “violent action is required in order to bring about societal and government collapse and advance a white supremacist ideology.” They said white supremacist groups are closely watching this case and wrote, “Imposing a sentence of 18 years of imprisonment would send a strong message to that particular community, as well as to the community at large, that this sort of violent and destructive conduct will not be tolerated and will be met with a serious penalty.” Lanette Clendaniel said after her daughter served prison time for robbing a convenience store with a machete to fuel a heroin addiction, she connected with her co-defendant Brandon Russell. Prosecutors said Russell is the cofounder of Atomwaffen Division, a Neo-Nazi organization.