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Militia Madness gets nearly 20 years for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor [1]
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Date: 2022-12-28
There was the confidential informant who lined his own pocket with the FBI’s snitch money but the gang leader needed to do the time. You really need to register your explosive devices and not be left to them.
x JUST IN: Barry Croft Jr., a convicted member of a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, is sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison
https://t.co/UN63Rw6cFy — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 28, 2022
A Michigan federal judge sentenced a man convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to nearly 20 years in prison Wednesday.
Barry Croft Jr. was part of a plan to kidnap the Democratic governor from her summer home in 2020 and practiced detonating explosives in preparation, prosecutors have said.
Croft, who was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison, the longest sentence of the people convicted, is the last of the defendants in federal court to be sentenced in connection to the plot.
Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Croft to life in prison.
A jury convicted Croft and Adam Fox in August of counts of kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
On Tuesday, Judge Robert Jonker sentenced Fox, considered to be a leader of the plot with Croft, to 16 years in prison.
Croft was also convicted of one count of possession of an unregistered destructive device.
www.cnn.com/…
x Another militia member in Michigan governor kidnapping plot faces sentencing
https://t.co/YMxmS5NyGk — The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) December 28, 2022
The abduction was meant to be the beginning of a "reign of terror," Kessler said in court documents. Croft's plan called for riots, "torching" government officials in their sleep and setting off violence across the country.
A key piece of evidence: Croft, Fox and others traveled to see Whitmer's vacation home in northern Michigan, with undercover agents and informants inside the cabal.
At one point, Croft told allies: "I don't like seeing anybody get killed either. But you don't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, you know what I mean?"
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