A right-wing extremist and former Marine Corps member was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for his involvement in a planned attack on power infrastructure in the northwestern United States.
Jordan Duncan, 29, who pleaded guilty in June to illegally manufacturing a shotgun, was sentenced in a North Carolina court.
The defendant was part of a group of five men, including three former Marines, sentenced to between nine months and 10 years in prison for a planned attack on power infrastructure.
"We have now brought to justice all five defendants involved in a self-styled 'modern-day SS' that conspired, prepared and trained for an attack on America's power infrastructure in the name of a violent white supremacist ideology," US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
"There is no place for hate in America," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded, also quoted in the text.
For several years, between 2017 and 2020, members of the group prepared their attack by equipping themselves with weapons, collecting documentation and training, including through live-fire exercises in Idaho (northwest), according to court documents.
During the arrest of one of them, in October 2020, a handwritten list of about 10 locations in Idaho and neighboring states was found, judicial authorities said.
