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It wasn't immediately clear Monday afternoon if Russell and Clendaniel had hired or been assigned criminal defense attorneys who could speak on their behalf.
Clendaniel and Russell were set to make their initial appearances before federal magistrates in Baltimore and Orlando, respectively, on Monday afternoon.
Erek L. Barron, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, thanked local and state law enforcement agencies for their collaboration in making these arrests.
"Together we are using every legal means necessary to keep Marylanders safe and to dispute hate-fueled violence," Barron said.
Attacks on the nation's power grid came into focus in December, following two high-profile incidents.
There were shootings at two electrical substations in central North Carolina in early December, officials said. At the peak of Duke Energy outages, more than 45,000 homes and businesses were in the dark.
That incident was followed by attacks at four electricity substations on Christmas weekend near Tacoma, Washington, as about 14,000 homes and businesses were forced to do without power, officials said.

This is a developing story.

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