A man has been charged after allegedly trying to blow up a Tennessee power substation as part of a white supremacist plot to “shock the system” and upend American society, another potential instance of extremism targeting critical infrastructure.

The FBI thwarted the plans of Skyler Philippi, 24, of Tenn., to attack Nashville’s power grid in plot to destroy society, the DOJ saidA Tennessee man who allegedly planned to launch an explosive-laden drone to destroy Nashville’s power grid to “further his violent White supremacist ideology” was arrested over the weekend and charged with federal crimes,

A 24-year-old Tennessee man has been arrested and charged with allegedly plotting to use a weapon of mass destruction in a neo-Nazi-inspired plot to destroy an energy facility near Nashville, the Justice Department announced Monday.

According to the Justice Department, Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, planned to fly a drone mounted with explosives into a substation.

A man with ties to white nationalist groups has been arrested for attempting to launch an explosive drone on a Nashville energy facility –– which would have destroyed critical infrastructure and left thousands of Americans without power.

A Tennessee man, with alleged white supremacist views, is accused of attempting to use a drone loaded with explosives to attack the Nashville power grid.