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Man pleads guilty to charges that he meant to blow up a Nashville power
site with a bomb-laden drone
By Associated Press
Updated:
6:36 PM EDT, Tue September 9, 2025
Source: AP
A 24-year-old man with ties to White nationalist groups pleaded guilty
Tuesday to charges that he attempted to use a drone to , according to
prosecutors.
Skyler Philippi, of Columbia, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to attempting
to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy an energy
facility, the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of
Tennessee said in a statement. He faces up to life in prison at his
January 8 sentencing.
“For months, Philippi planned what he had hoped would be a
devastating attack on Nashville’s energy infrastructure. He acquired
what he believed to be explosives, surveilled his target, and equipped
a drone to attack an electrical substation. Motivated by a violent
ideology, Philippi wanted ‘to do something big.’ Instead, the FBI
disrupted his plans, and Philippi now awaits sentencing,” Assistant
Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said in the
statement.
Philippi’s lawyer, R. David Baker, didn’t immediately respond to an
email seeking comment.
Philippi told a confidential FBI source in July 2024 that he wanted to
attack several electricity substations to “shock the system,” an
FBI agent wrote in the criminal complaint. That source later introduced
Philippi to an undercover FBI employee, who began to collect
information about Philippi’s plan with other undercover agents.
In November 2024, Philippi and undercover employees drove to his
intended Nashville launch site and prepared to fly a drone that
authorities say Philippi believed had 3 pounds (1.4 kilograms) of C-4
plastic explosive attached to it. The material had been provided by the
undercover employees, according to prosecutors.
When he was arrested, Philippi had the drone powered up and was
preparing to attach the armed explosive device to it as undercover
employees pretended to be acting as lookouts for him, prosecutors said.
Philippi allegedly told undercover officials that he was affiliated
with several White nationalist and extremist groups, including the
National Alliance, which calls for eradicating Jews and other groups of
people. Such extremist groups increasingly view attacking the U.S.
power grid as a means of disrupting the country.
Philippi pleaded not guilty in January. In a March letter to the judge
from jail, Philippi claimed that the undercover FBI agents had violated
his due process rights and that his public defender had provided
ineffective counsel.
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