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Source: Associated Press
Jury hears man discuss plan to abduct Mich. Gov. Whitmer
By MICHAEL TARM, ED WHITE and SARA BURNETT
March 10, 2022
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) Prosecutors in the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday played covertly recorded audio for jurors in which one of the men specifically discusses a plan to abduct the Democrat.
In the recording, made by a government informant during a meeting in mid-July 2020 in Wisconsin, Barry Croft Jr. describes the possibility of using explosives to rain down fire on law enforcement with a team standing by to abduct Whitmer.
He adds without providing details that it should be a quick precise grab of the governor.
In another recording made by the same informant, jurors heard the sound of an explosives test Croft was conducting. Hes later heard speaking almost giddily about the damage he could cause, saying it would be devastating.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial-crime-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-grand-rapids-2376e320a5479f3bd443b81597a5f065
Probatim
(2,459 posts)taken seriously.
3Hotdogs
(12,210 posts)for a long vacation.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)I hope so, anyway.