Several undercover FBI agents were involved in the investigation, the DOJ said.
Prosecutors say Skyler Philippi is seen conducting a test flight of a drone in this photo, which was included in a federal complaint.A 24-year-old Tennessee man has been arrested and charged with allegedly plotting to use a weapon of mass destruction in a neo-Nazi-inspired plot to destroy an energy facility near Nashville, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Prosecutors say Skyler Philippi is seen conducting a test flight of a drone in this photo, which was included in a federal complaint.Philippi allegedly repeatedly espoused his adherence to white supremacist and accelerationist ideologies which promote the idea that a destabilizing terrorist attack on something like the nation's energy sectors could serve to incite unrest that leads to civil war, according to prosecutors.
On Saturday, Philippi allegedly met up with the undercover agents to test fly the drone and conduct the attack, according to the complaint. The complaint includes a photograph that prosecutors said shows Philippi conducting the test flight of the drone.
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