A Dublin man and another man identified by federal prosecutors as white supremacists who plotted to attack the U.S. power grid were sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Columbus.
Christopher Brenner Cook, 21, of Dublin, was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison. Jonathan Allen Frost, 25, who had addresses in Katy, Texas, and West Lafayette, Indiana, was sentenced to five years in prison.
A third man convicted in the scheme, 22-year-old Jackson Matthew Sawall, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, will be sentenced at a later date.
All three men pleaded guilty in February 2022 to one count each of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.
In late 2019 and 2020, the men plotted, amassed weapons and recruited juveniles to the cause using neo-Nazi propaganda, according to court documents.
The plan was to attack substations with powerful rifles, federal prosecutors said. The three men believed disrupting the power supply for many months would cost the government millions of dollars and cause unrest, possibly sparking a race war or inducing the next Great Depression, prosecutors said.
The men, according to court records, had "suicide necklaces" containing fentanyl that they planned to ingest should law enforcement capture them.
