He’s one of 5 men with ties to white supremacy charged with targeting Idaho energy facilities. Now he’s pleading guilty.

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BOISE – On Monday, successful Wilmington, North Carolina, a Boise man pinch achromatic supremacist ties pleaded blameworthy to a national firearms complaint stemming from his information successful a group that had discussed targeting nan powerfulness grid successful Idaho and had conducted live-fire training adjacent Boise.

Jordan Duncan, 29, of Boise, pleaded blameworthy to aiding and abetting nan manufacturing of a firearm arsenic charged successful a superseding criminal accusation revenge successful nan Eastern District of North Carolina. This crime carries a maximum reward of 10 years successful national prison. Duncan is simply a erstwhile Marine assigned antecedently to Camp Lejeune successful Jacksonville, North Carolina.

According to tribunal documents, Duncan, pinch co-defendants Paul James Kryscuk, 38, Liam Collins, 25, Justin Wade Hermanson, 25, and Joseph Maurino, 25, researched, discussed, and reviewed astatine magnitude a erstwhile onslaught connected nan powerfulness grid by an chartless group. The group depicted successful nan onslaught utilized assault-style rifles successful an effort to detonate a powerfulness substation.

Between 2017 and 2020, Kryscuk manufactured firearms while Collins stole subject gear, including magazines for assault-style rifles, and had them delivered to nan different defendants. During that time, Duncan gathered a room of information, immoderate military-owned, regarding firearms, explosives, and nervus toxins and shared that accusation pinch Kryscuk and Collins.

In October 2020, a handwritten database of astir 1 twelve intersections and places successful Idaho and surrounding states was discovered successful Kryscuk’s possession, including intersections and/or places containing a transformer, substation, aliases different constituent of nan powerfulness grid for nan northwest United States.

Previously revenge charges allege that Collins and Kryscuk were members of and made aggregate posts connected nan “Iron March” forum, a gathering constituent for young neo-Nazis to shape and enlistee for extremist organizations, until nan forum was closed successful precocious 2017.

Collins and Kryscuk met done nan forum and expanded their group utilizing an encrypted messaging exertion arsenic an alternate intends of connection extracurricular of nan forum. Collins and Kryscuk recruited further members, including Duncan, Hermanson, and Maurino, and conducted training, including a live-fire training successful nan godforsaken adjacent Boise.

From video footage recorded by nan members during nan training, Kryscuk, Duncan, and others produced a montage video of their training. In nan video, nan participants are seen firing short tube rifles and different assault-type rifles, and nan extremity of nan propaganda video shows nan 4 participants outfitted successful AtomWaffen masks giving nan “Heil Hitler” sign, beneath nan image of a achromatic sun, a Nazi symbol. The past framework bears nan phrase, “Come location achromatic man.” Prior to their arrests, Collins and Duncan had precocious relocated to Boise from North Carolina and Texas, respectively, to beryllium adjacent Kryscuk.

Kryscuk, Collins, Maurino, and Hermanson each earlier entered pleas of blameworthy to various crimes: connected February 15, 2022, Kryscuk entered a plea of blameworthy to conspiracy to destruct an power facility, which carries a maximum condemnation of 20 years successful national prison; connected October 24, 2023, Collins pleaded blameworthy to aiding and abetting nan interstate proscription of unregistered firearms, which carries a maximum of 10 years successful national prison; and connected March 8, 2023 and April 11, 2023, respectively, Hermanson and Maurino pleaded blameworthy to conspiracy to manufacture firearms and vessel interstate, which carries a maximum condemnation of 5 years successful national prison.

All 5 defendants now await sentencing earlier Chief United States District Judge Richard E. Myers II.

Michael Easley, U.S. Attorney for nan Eastern District of North Carolina, made nan announcement. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, nan FBI section offices successful Salt Lake City and Charlotte pinch assistance from section offices successful Boston, New York, and Newark, nan Boise Police Department, nan United States Postal Inspection Service, Homeland Security Investigations, and nan Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, are investigating nan case.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys from nan Eastern District of North Carolina are prosecuting nan lawsuit for nan authorities pinch assistance from Assistant U.S. Attorneys for nan District of Idaho, District of New Jersey, Eastern District of New York, nan District of Rhode Island, and attorneys from nan Justice Department’s National Security Division.