Man pleads guilty to charges that he meant to blow up a Nashville power site with a bomb-laden drone

Nashvılle, Tenn. (AP)-A 24-year-old man who has ties with white nationalist groups was found guilty of his accusations he was trying to use a drone on Tuesday Bombing the Nashville Electrical Transformer CenterAccording to prosecutors.

US Tennessee Middle Region lawyer said in a statement, Tennessee, Columbia Skyler Philippi, mass destruction weapon to use and try to destroy an energy facility was found guilty. He faces life in prison for January 8th.

“Philippi planned that Nashville would be a destructive attack on the energy infrastructure for months. He bought what he believed to be explosives, watched his goal and equipped a drone to attack a electric transformer center. Philippi, who was motivated with a violent ideology, wanted to do something big. National Security Assistant John A. Eisenberg.

Philippi’s lawyer R. David Baker did not respond immediately to an e -mail looking for comments.

Philippi wrote a FBI agent criminal complaint, said he wanted to attack a hidden FBI source in July 2024 to “shock the system” to a few electrical transformer centers. This source then introduced Philippi to a secret FBI employee who began to collect information with other secret agents about Philippi’s plan.

In November 2024, Philippi and Undercover employees went to the intended launch area and a drone, which the authorities believe that Philippi believes that it was a 3 kilogram (1.4 kilograms) C-4 plastic explosives, was prepared to fly. According to prosecutors, the material was provided by secret employees.

When he was arrested, Philippi strengthened the drone and said he was preparing to connect the armed explosive device to him, as secret employees behaved as if he were looking at him.

Philippi’s secret authorities, Jews and other groups of people, including the national alliance, including various white nationalist and extremist groups, he said. Such pro -extremist groups see more and more Attack the US Power Grid as a means of breaking the country.

Philippi claimed that he was not guilty in January. In a letter to the prison judge in March, Philippi claimed that secret FBI agents violated the necessary process rights and that the public advocate provided ineffective counseling.