The founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group was convicted Monday of conspiring with his former girlfriend to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid in furtherance of their shared racist beliefs.

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.

Brandon Russell, a 29-year-old neo-Nazi leader from Orlando, Fla., faces up to 20 years in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of conspiring to damage a Maryland energy facility.

"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.