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Married, three young kids, a "software engineer" job, no hint at any real-world { cause ==> effect } motivation or plans...

If they didn't screw up and grab the wrong guy...I'd say to start by x-raying his head. Finding a brain cancer, or "dead zone" from a silent stroke, or brain-eating amoebas would not be totally surprising. And tagging such crimes with an "extreme mentally defect" social stigma might be pretty useful, too.

"Police also say he had an "inactive" meth lab in his home and admitted to using methamphetamine as a replacement for Adderall during the shortage" - yes, stimulants can cause all sorts of dysfunctions, I worked with that kind of addict once.
So he is a "Russian Sleeper", and he got caught. The war is real, and it is here. Covert operations in Russia and in USA are covered up, as shown here.

Terrorists don't get credit. They get downplayed.

``John C. Inglis, the former deputy director of the U.S. National Security Agency, said in 2015 "frankly, the No. 1 threat experienced to date by the U.S. electrical grid is squirrels." ''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_disruptions_caused_...

is squirrels

And frogs. They get into transformer boxes, junction boxes and apparently are highly conductive. I had to replace a half a mile of 4ot cable as a teen and the people I worked for were too cheap to rent a back-hoe. So I was the back-hoe.

America wasn't waging covert war against Russian infrastructure in 2015.

Timeline is not relevent to current political war situation.

Squirrel damage is limited to a short out.

Human damage can break many many obscure parts with a single bomb.

Not even remotely close comparison in terms of damage.

This guy lefts thousands without power for days. Squirrels don't do that.

Over some period of time, possibly 2013-17:

"there have been eight deaths attributed to animal attacks on infrastructure, including six caused by squirrels downing power lines that then struck people on the ground."

75%!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38650436