No strong opinions about it. The FBI and DOJ will rap up their investigation before they take these guys to trial, and we'll find out more at trial if anything.

> I don't for one second believe these clowns did all that just to get a little bit of cash.

Short story time:

A few years back, a substation in my area was "attacked." The crew responding to the outage found one of the perpetrators on top of the equipment near his bolt cutters, badly burned, and he later died.

Investigators found out his girlfriend had been with him, whom they arrested. It turned out they were meth addicts, stealing cable. That's all it was. They were so out of their minds that they saw those big fat cables and thought they could walk away with them from a live substation. She left him to die. Didn't even call 911. I don't have a link to this story, because my local paper didn't keep a lot of older stories online after a website update, but there's tons of similar stories to be found from a search for "thief electrocuted."

https://powerlineman.com/lforum/showthread.php?7508-Burned-copper-thief

If thieves like that were smart or sober enough to get money the easy way, they would get a job and show up on time every day. They come up with hair-brained schemes like shutting down substations, but not thinking that maybe there could be security cameras or their phones might be trackable because they're not smart.