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,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Tuesday.

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 Tennessee man “dedicated to white supremacist ideology” faces federal charges in an alleged plot to blow up a Nashville energy facility, an attack that if successful could have left thousands without power three days before the US presidential election,

According to the Justice Department, Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, planned to fly a drone mounted with explosives into a substation.

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.