Nashville power grid bomb plot suspect unmasked as baby-faced thug: mugshot

Authorities person unmasked the Nashville drone panic crippled suspect, 24-year-old Skyler Philippi, who appeared successful tribunal documents wearing a skull disguise and showing disconnected homemade bombs successful a foiled effort to stroke up the Music City powerfulness grid.

He is accused of plotting to stroke up a powerfulness presumption with a bomb-laden drone that authorities accidental was "powered up" erstwhile they arrested him successful a parking batch adjacent the target.

Federal prosecutors volition inquire the justice to bid him jailed arsenic helium awaits proceedings astatine a proceeding connected Nov. 13, arguing that "no information oregon operation of [bail] conditions volition reasonably guarantee the information of immoderate different idiosyncratic and the community."

FBI THWARTS MAN'S ALLEGED PLAN TO ATTACK NASHVILLE POWER GRID WITH EXPLOSIVE-LADEN DRONE

Skyler Robert Philippi, 24, pictured successful his Nashville mugshot wearing the aforesaid skeleton garment helium posed with portion holding the alleged bombs successful a crippled to stroke up the Music City's powerfulness grid. (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)

Prosecutors described Philippi arsenic an alleged "accelerationist," which the Anti-Defamation League defines arsenic "a word White supremacists person assigned to their tendency to hasten the illness of nine arsenic we cognize it" with roots that spell backmost to Marxism.

"If you privation to bash the astir harm arsenic an accelerationist, onslaught precocious economic, precocious tax, governmental zones successful each large metropolis," Philippi wrote successful a substance connection to a authorities informant, according to the transgression complaint.

The informant aboriginal introduced him to 2 undercover FBI agents who helped halt the crippled earlier the drone, equipped with a unrecorded bomb, could instrumentality off.

Philippi allegedly discussed committing a wide shooting astatine a YMCA and derailing a bid with antisemitic motives, according to the complaint.

A selfie that prosecutors accidental shows Skyler Philippi and 2 undercover agents posing with bombs intended for his alleged crippled to stroke up Nashville's powerfulness grid. Philippi, connected the right, is pictured wearing the aforesaid garment successful his mugshot. (Department of Justice)

Philippi allegedly claimed past affiliation with White supremacist groups, blamed the Sept. 11, 2001, panic attacks connected "a Jewish person" and told different informant helium got into a shootout with a Black antheral successful Lousiville, Kentucky, according to the complaint.

He researched past attacks connected the powerfulness grid and concluded that damaging 8 oregon much powerfulness stations astatine erstwhile would cripple the country, and helium allegedly planned to usage a homemade drone equipped with explosives.

When the FBI moved to apprehension him, they recovered him successful the backmost spot of a car with the drone and a unrecorded bomb, according to the transgression complaint. Moments earlier, helium allegedly gave his weapon to 1 of the informants, who helium thought was going to beryllium a lookout.

FBI ARRESTS MAN, WOMAN WITH ‘EXTREMIST’ VIEWS IN ALLEGED POWER GRID ATTACK PLOT TARGETING 5 SUBSTATIONS

Skyler Philippi pictured arsenic helium met with undercover agents successful an unfastened country adjacent Franklin, Tennessee, to trial alert a drone, according to national prosecutors. (Department of Justice)

"As alleged, the suspect successful this lawsuit conducted extended probe into explosive devices and imaginable targets to motorboat an onslaught against captious infrastructure," Joe Carrico, the FBI's peculiar cause successful complaint of the Nashville Field Office, said successful a statement. "The FBI is committed to doing everything successful our quality to detect, disrupt, and deter attacks by domestic convulsive extremists, and volition proceed to prosecute those who look to perpetrate acts of unit successful furtherance of their ideological beliefs."

Philippi faces charges of attempted usage of a limb of wide demolition and attempted demolition of an vigor facility.

He has not yet entered a plea.

Read the criminal complaint:

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"Driven by a racially motivated convulsive extremist ideology, the Defendant planned to onslaught the powerfulness grid with a drone and explosives, leaving thousands of Americans and captious infrastructure similar hospitals without power," FBI Director Christopher Wray said successful a statement.

"The FBI’s swift enactment led to the detection and disruption of the defendant’s crippled earlier helium could origin immoderate damage. We are committed to holding accountable anyone who threatens the information of our captious infrastructure oregon seeks to harm American communities done home convulsive extremism."