Fifth and final man pleads guilty in neo-Nazi group's plot to attack Idaho power grid
Also: Last of Five Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy and Who Were Charged with Targeting Idaho Energy Facilities Enters Guilty Plea (U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Idaho)
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Source: Idaho Statesman
Fifth and final man pleads guilty in neo-Nazi group’s plot to attack Idaho power grid
Sally Krutzig
Wed, June 26, 2024 at 6:57 PM EDT·2 min read
The last man connected to a group that was concocting plans to take down the power grid in Idaho and other states has pleaded guilty.
Court records show that Jordan Duncan, 29, of Boise, pleaded guilty in North Carolina to aiding and abetting the manufacturing of a firearm in the wide-ranging case. He could face up to 10 years in federal prison for the crime.
Four other men involved — Paul Kryscuk, 35, Liam Collins, 21, Justin Hermanson, 25, and Joseph Maurino, 22 — have already pleaded guilty to various crimes related to their power grid plot, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Collins and Duncan moved to Boise to be near resident Kryscuk, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors said the men began organizing a Northwest U.S. “modern-day SS” — referencing the Nazi Party’s paramilitary group known for its brutal behavior — through a now-defunct neo-Nazi message board known as Iron March.
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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/fifth-final-man-pleads-guilty-225702665.html
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Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Idaho
Last of Five Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy and Who Were Charged with Targeting Idaho Energy Facilities Enters Guilty Plea
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Idaho
Former Marine Pleads Guilty to Aiding and Abetting the Manufacture of Firearms
BOISE – Yesterday, in Wilmington, North Carolina, a Boise man with white supremacist ties pleaded guilty to a federal firearms charge stemming from his participation in a group that had discussed targeting the power grid in Idaho and had conducted live-fire training near Boise.
Jordan Duncan, 29, of Boise, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the manufacturing of a firearm as charged in a superseding criminal information filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina. This crime carries a maximum punishment of 10 years in federal prison. Duncan is a former Marine assigned previously to Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
According to court documents, Duncan, with co-defendants Paul James Kryscuk, 38, Liam Collins, 25, Justin Wade Hermanson, 25, and Joseph Maurino, 25, researched, discussed, and reviewed at length a previous attack on the power grid by an unknown group. The group depicted in the attack used assault-style rifles in an attempt to explode a power substation. Between 2017 and 2020, Kryscuk manufactured firearms while Collins stole military gear, including magazines for assault-style rifles, and had them delivered to the other defendants. During that time, Duncan gathered a library of information, some military-owned, regarding firearms, explosives, and nerve toxins and shared that information with Kryscuk and Collins. In October 2020, a handwritten list of approximately one dozen intersections and places in Idaho and surrounding states was discovered in Kryscuk’s possession, including intersections and/or places containing a transformer, substation, or other component of the power grid for the northwest United States.
Previously filed charges allege that Collins and Kryscuk were members of and made multiple posts on the “Iron March” forum, a gathering point for young neo-Nazis to organize and recruit for extremist organizations, until the forum was closed in late 2017. Collins and Kryscuk met through the forum and expanded their group using an encrypted messaging application as an alternate means of communication outside of the forum. Collins and Kryscuk recruited additional members, including Duncan, Hermanson, and Maurino, and conducted training, including a live-fire training in the desert near Boise. From video footage recorded by the members during the training, Kryscuk, Duncan, and others produced a montage video of their training. In the video, the participants are seen firing short barrel rifles and other assault-type rifles, and the end of the propaganda video shows the four participants outfitted in AtomWaffen masks giving the “Heil Hitler” sign, beneath the image of a black sun, a Nazi symbol. The last frame bears the phrase, “Come home white man.” Prior to their arrests, Collins and Duncan had recently relocated to Boise from North Carolina and Texas, respectively, to be near Kryscuk.
Kryscuk, Collins, Maurino, and Hermanson each earlier entered pleas of guilty to various crimes: ...
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Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-id/pr/last-five-defendants-ties-white-supremacy-and-who-were-charged-targeting-idaho-energy
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