A federal jury found 29-year-old Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, guilty after a six-day trial, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

Brandon Russell, the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group, was convicted on Monday of conspiring to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid. Russell encouraged his former girlfriend Sarah

Neo-Nazi Brandon Russell convicted of plotting to blow up Baltimore’s power grid as part of plan to sew chaos in the city. His codefendant, Sarah Beth Clendaniel, earlier pleaded guilty in the case.

A self-proclaimed National Socialist has been convicted by a jury of trying to attack the Baltimore energy grid to spark a race war.

"Brandon Russell, a self-proclaimed National Socialist, conspired to 'lay waste to the city of Baltimore’ through violence and destruction of critical infrastructure," said William J. DelBagno, the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Baltimore field office.