Two men were charged by the DOJ in connection to four substation attacks in Washington state on Christmas that left thousands without power and caused more than $3 million in damages.
"I commend the work by the FBI to quickly identify these suspects and disrupt any future attacks on the east Pierce County power grid," Brown said in a statement."We have seen attacks such as these increase in Western Washington and throughout the country and must treat each incident seriously. The outages on Christmas left thousands in the dark and cold and put some who need power for medical devices at extreme risk.
According to the criminal complaint, the two men were identified as possible suspects through the analysis of cellphone records. At one of the substations, Tacoma Power captured images of one suspect and the image of a pickup truck that appeared to be connected with the attack. law enforcement served a search warrant
On Dec. 26, Tacoma Power provided the FBI with surveillance footage of a suspect seen at the Elk Plain substation at the time of the attack. Federal agents and local law enforcement later conducted search warrants on Dec. 31 and found a short barreled rife with what appears to be a homemade silencer inside a trailer.
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