Neo-Nazis Blackmail Power Grid in Bid to Free Bumbling Bank Robbery Suspects

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Neo-Nazis Blackmail Power Grid in Bid to Free Bumbling Bank Robbery Suspects

“Release our men,” the threat said. “Failure to do so will result in more attacks on infrastructure.”

Justin Rohrlich
Reporter
Updated Aug. 09, 2023 5:47PM EDT Published Aug. 09, 2023 2:49PM EDT

A white supremacist seething over the continued detention of two neo-Nazis accused of conspiring to rob an Upstate New York bank threatened to attack the U.S. power grid if the bumbling pair were not released and left unmolested by law enforcement.

That’s according to a bulletin issued in April by the South Dakota Fusion Center, a component of the state’s Office of Homeland Security and part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Fusion Center System, which combines local, state, and federal resources in the effort to track and investigate criminal and terrorist threats. The document, which is marked “For Official Use Only” and was first obtained by The Daily Dot via a Freedom of Information Act request, says the threat was posted to Telegram by an unidentified individual who shared four diagrams of electrical grid transformer equipment along with two terse demands:

“1. Release our men 2. Leave them alone there after [sic]. Failure to do so will result in more attacks on infrastructure.”

It was displayed under the heading, “Free Doc Grimson and Luke Kenna,” which refers to an online alias used by Michael Brown Jr., 41, and alleged co-conspirator Luke Kenna, 43. The hapless duo were arrested late last year after Kenna’s tan minivan was pulled over by police in Gloversville, New York for a minor traffic violation. When the officer approached the vehicle, he noticed that his walkie-talkie’s signals seemed to be getting jammed, according to the federal complaint charging Kenna and Brown with conspiracy to commit bank robbery. Kenna, dressed in all-black from head-to-toe, including a ballistic vest, told cops he didn’t have any ID on him. But a diary sitting next to him on the front seat contained a step-by-step bank robbery scheme laid out in full, the complaint says.

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