Sarah Clendaniel biography: 10 things about Catonsville, Maryland woman

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Who is Sarah Clendaniel?

Sarah Beth Clendaniel is an American woman from Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. Aside from Catonsville, she has lived in other parts of Maryland including Elkton and North East.
2. She has lived in different parts of Iowa, USA including Menlo and West Des Moines.
3. She is 31 years younger than her fellow North East resident Allen Lynn White.
4. She is 7 years older than neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division leader Brandon Clint Russell of Orlando, Orange County, Florida, USA.
5. In 2001, she started holding Nazi beliefs.
6. In 2006, she was arrested on several offenses, including armed robbery at a convenience store where she wielded a large butcher knife, and was sentenced to five years in prison.
7. In 2016, she and White were each charged with armed robbery, robbery, first-degree assault and attempted theft.
8. In 2018, she and Russell started corresponding while they were both serving time behind bars in separate prisons.
9. From December 2022 through February 2023, she conspired with Russell to damage energy facilities involved in the transmission and distribution of electricity and to cause a significant interruption and impairment of the Baltimore regional power grid.
10. In 2023, she and Russell were charged with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility. 

TIMELINE

2016

• At around 8:30 p.m. on March 21, 2016, she allegedly carried a machete and robbed the Pantry 1 Mart near Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland.
• At around 8:00 p.m. on March 22, 2016, she allegedly carried a machete and held up the High’s Dairy Store in Bayview, Baltimore, Maryland.
• On March 25, 2016, she allegedly robbed Pantry 1 Mart near Rising Sun again.
• On March 29, 2016, she was supposed to hold up the High’s Dairy Store at Joseph Biggs Memorial Highway in North East with White as her getaway driver when they were both arrested. They were booked into the Cecil County Detention Center in Elkton.

2023

• In January 2023, she introduced herself to a person she did not know was a Federal Bureau of Investigation confidential source and sought help obtaining firearms. She told the person she wanted to accomplish something worthwhile before she died of a terminal illness in her kidneys in a few months. She and Russell allegedly planned to attack five substations in Maryland, including the ones in Norrisville, Reisterstown and Perry Hall.
• On February 3, 2023, she and Russell were arrested and charged with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility. 
• On February 6, 2023, she made her initial court appearance in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore before U.S. Magistrate Judge Brendan Hurson.

2024

• On May 14, 2024, she pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to conspiracy to damage an energy facility and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
• On September 24, 2024, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release.

2025

• In March 2025, she will turn 37.