Man with white supremacist ties arrested in alleged C-4 drone plot against U.S. power station

Accused 'researched previous attacks on electric substations and concluded that attacking with firearms would not be sufficient'

The Department of Justice said Monday that federal agents have arrested a Tennessee man with ties to white nationalist groups who they say attempted to use what he believed to be an explosive-laden drone to destroy a Nashville energy facility.

According to court documents, Skyler Philippi, 24, is accused of planning to attach several pounds of C-4 explosives to an aerial drone with the intent of destroying an electric substation in Nashville.