A 24-year-old man with ties to white supremacist movements was arrested after allegedly plotting to use an explosive drone to attack a Nashville power plant.

A 24-year-old man in Tennessee was arrested by federal agents after he allegedly tried to use a "weapon of mass destruction" to attack an energy facility. Skyler Philippi, 24, "believed he was moments away from launching an attack on a Nashville energy facility to further his violent white supremacist ideology – but the FBI had already compromised his plot,

A man with ties to white nationalist groups has been arrested for attempting to launch an explosive drone on a Nashville energy facility –– which would have destroyed critical infrastructure and left thousands of Americans without power.

A Tennessee man, with alleged white supremacist views, is accused of attempting to use a drone loaded with explosives to attack the Nashville power grid.