Chesterfield, November 12 (RHC)-- The FBI has arrested three people over planning to bomb and launch armed attacks against places of worship frequented by African Americans.

Identified as Ronald Beasley Chaney and Robert Curtis Doyle, the two were arrested after meeting with an informant with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chesterfield, Virginia, according to court documents.

Federal agents initially received reports that the two, who both have prior charges, were discussing plans at Doyle’s Chesterfield home on September 27th to "bomb or shoot up" Black churches as well as synagogues “in furtherance of their extremist beliefs.”

They were said to “ascribe to a white supremacy extremist version of the Asatru faith,” a neo-pagan religion, made by a combination of Norse mythology and pre-Christian Germanic religious practices.

Chaney and Doyle were detained on charges of attempts to obtain illegal firearms. A third person, identified as Charles Halderman, was also arrested in connection with the case on other charges, including plans to attack a gun store.