A state judge has ordered five men to stand trial on charges involving a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Two men who were described as ringleaders were convicted of conspiracy in federal court on Aug. 23.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Five men were turned over for trial Wednesday on charges involving a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.providing material support for terrorist acts
as well as a gun crime. Brian Higgins of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, was charged with the providing material support count. Judge Michael Stepka ruled that evidence presented in a preliminary hearing justified a trial in Antrim County, where Whitmer’s Elk Rapids vacation home is located and prosecutors say the abduction was to happen. They say four of the defendants scouted the house and surroundings, and there was talk of blowing up a bridge to keep police from responding.and charged with backing the scheme.It’s a “version of anarchy,” FBI agent Hank Impola testified during the four-day hearing in August.
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