WASHINGTON (WPRI) — A Johnston man was sentenced Thursday for his role in a “racially-motivated” scheme to destroy an energy facility, according to prosecutors.

Court documents reveal that, between 2017 and 2020, 25-year-old Liam Collins and two other men devised a plan to attack the United States power grid.

In preparation, prosecutors said Collins, 38-year-old Paul James Kryscuk of Boise, Idaho, and 25-year-old Justin Wade Hermanson of Swansboro, North Carolina, heavily researched, discussed and reviewed a previous attack on the power grid.

The trio was part of “a self-described ‘modern day’ SS,'” which manufactured guns, stole military supplies and collected information on explosives and toxins to help them carry out their plan, according to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.

In October 2020, investigators Kryscuk with a handwritten list of intersections and power grid components throughout the Northwest.

According to previously filed charges, Collins and Kryscuk were members of the now-defunct “Iron March” forum. The two men reportedly met on the far-right neo-Nazi website, recruited others and organized in-person trainings.

Prosecutors said Collins and Kryscuk disseminated a video montage from one of those trainings which showed participants firing rifles, wearing Atomwaffen masks and giving the “Heil Hitler” sign under a Nazi black sun symbol. The video montage concluded with the phrase, “Come home white man.”

Prior to his arrest, Collins allegedly moved to Idaho to be closer to Kryscuk.

Collins was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of unregistered firearms, while Kryscuk received nearly seven years for conspiring to destroy an energy facility. Hermanson received a near two-year sentence for conspiring to manufacture firearms and ship interstate.

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