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Man sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for damaging energy facilities in the Dakotas • North Dakota Monitor [1]
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Date: 2025-03
A Canadian man who pleaded guilty last fall to shooting at energy facilities in North Dakota and South Dakota was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison.
Cameron Monte Smith, 50, also was ordered to pay more than $2 million in restitution after being convicted in U.S. District Court of two counts of destruction of an energy facility.
Court documents show that Smith used a high-powered rifle to shoot at the Wheelock electric substation near Ray in northwest North Dakota in May 2023. The substation is operated by Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative and Basin Electric Power Cooperative. The shooting knocked out power to more than 240 people, The Bismarck Tribune has reported.
Smith also used a rifle to shoot a transformer and pump station of the Keystone Pipeline in eastern South Dakota’s Clark County in July 2022, court records show. The damage disrupted the pipeline, operated by TC Energy, which carries oil from Canada through North Dakota and South Dakota to facilities in Illinois and Texas.
“This sentence serves as a reminder that the Department of Justice will use all its resources to investigate and aggressively prosecute any attack on our critical civilian infrastructures,” Jennifer Klemetsrud Puhl, acting U.S. attorney for the District of North Dakota, said in a statement.
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