Justice Department: “The fifth of five defendants charged with targeting an energy facility was sentenced today. Jordan Duncan, 29, of Bailey, North Carolina was sentenced today to seven years in prison for manufacturing a short barrel rifle in violation of the National Firearms Act. Joseph Maurino, 25, of Manalapan, New Jersey, was sentenced on Oct 25. Paul James Kryscuk, 38, of Boise, Idaho, Liam Collins, 25, of Johnston, Rhode Island, and Justin Wade Hermanson, 25, of Swansboro, North Carolina, were sentenced in July. Duncan, Collins, and Hermanson are former Marines who were assigned to Camp Lejeune. According to documents and other information presented in court, the group researched and reviewed at length a previous attack on the power grid by an unknown group who used assault-style rifles in an attempt to explode a 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 with Kryscuk and Collins. Members of the group went on to conduct training, including a live-fire training in the desert near Boise. From video footage recorded during the training, Kryscuk, Duncan, and others produced a montage video of their training. In the video, the participants are seen firing short barrel and other assault-type rifles, and the end of the 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.'”