The FBI captured two people, described as “racially motivated” extremists, before they could launch an attack on Baltimore’s power grid, officials said Monday.
The suspects were taken into custody last week, one in Maryland and the other in Florida, officials said.
One of the suspects is a man and the other a woman.
Attacks on the nation’s power grid came into focus in December, following two high-profile incidents.
There were shootings at two electrical substations in central North Carolina in early December, officials said. At the peak of Duke Energy outages, more than 45,000 homes and businesses were in the dark.
That incident was followed by attacks at four electricity substations on Christmas weekend near Tacoma, Washington, as about 14,000 homes and businesses were forced to do without power, officials said.
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