A Baltimore County woman has pleaded guilty Tuesday for conspiring to attack and destroy Baltimore region’s power grid last year.
Sarah Beth Clendaniel, from Catonsville, pleaded guilty to conspiring to damage or destroy electrical facilities and to being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Maryland Department of Justice.
She is now facing a maximum of 20 years in prison on the conspiracy charge and 15 years on the felony charge, followed up to a lifetime of supervised release for the conspiracy charge.
Honestly I’m surprised we don’t see more of these. Our elecrital grid is frighteningly vulnerable.
Having worked for an electric company and am now in consulting doing grid modernization you likely don’t even know a fraction of how vulnerable it is… It’s some seriously scary shit.
About a year ago we had a mild tornado in my area that tore through the woodlands and Marsh for about 15 miles but never made it into a populated area.
Our electricity was out for almost 3 weeks, and 11 months later they’re still trying to clear brush around the lines that had grown up over the years.
Edit:
Double posted as a reply to myself somehow.
All I can say is its a damn good thing people feel the need to talk about their terrorist plans. Lone wolfs… not gonna finish that thought.
If only there was some sort of entity that could maintain and upgrade the grid!