Marine veteran pleads guilty in neo-Nazi plot to damage power grid

The final defendant in a group of five former military members with ties to white-supremacist organizations pleaded guilty this week to weapons charges stemming from a plot to attack the power grid in the northwestern United States.

Jordan Duncan, a Marine veteran who was previously stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, appeared Monday in a federal court in Wilmington, N.C., and admitted to aiding and abetting the manufacture of firearms.

The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. His plea follows those of co-defendants Paul James Kryscuk, 38; Liam Collins, 25; Justin Wade Hermanson, 25; and Joseph Maurino, 25. Motivated by white supremacist ideologies, the defendants studied a prior assault on a power substation, intending to replicate and escalate the violence using firearms and explosives, according to court documents.

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