BARRY CROFT JR.

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Prosecutors have rested their case against two men on trial for a second time in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox were serious about an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, former co-defendants testified Wednesday, Aug. 17. Croft, 46, of Bear, Delaware, and Fox, 38, of Wyoming, Michigan, were “very eager” to kidnap the governor in 2020, Ty Garbin testified.

A jury in western Michigan has heard from two key witnesses in the trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 were “very eager” to move forward with the plan and expressed no reluctance, a key witness testified Wednesday.

Defense attorneys have grilled an FBI informant in the trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

A crucial informant is on the witness stand in the trial of two men charged with scheming to kidnap the Michigan governor in 2020.

Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot trial in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Whitmer kidnap case wanted to ‘build an army,’ jury toldDefendants in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer says details ‘jarring’ from trial of men charged with conspiring to kidnap herMan in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer denies involvement, tells jurors informant pushed the ideaGirlfriend of key figure in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot: ‘Dominoes will start falling’ with a governor’s hangingAlleged leaders of plot to kidnap Gov.

A lawyer has raised concerns about a juror in the second trial of two men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan's governor.

A judge overseeing the second trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took steps Friday to keep a lid on a defense lawyer's concerns about whether a juror will be fair.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A federal court jury on Thursday, Aug. 11, heard Barry Croft Jr., in secret recordings, suggest killing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s security detail and setting off explosives to create a chaotic scene and kidnap the governor. In the recordings, Croft envisioned a team “dropping the … armed guards before we even approach the house.”

Whitmer were ‘big talkers,’ had no plan, attorneys tell jurorsRetrial of 2 suspects in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer says details ‘jarring’ from trial of men charged with conspiring to kidnap herMan in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer denies involvement, tells jurors informant pushed the ideaGirlfriend of key figure in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot: ‘Dominoes will start falling’ with a governor’s hangingAlleged leaders of plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialGuns, flexible handcuffs in home of defendant in alleged plot to kidnap Gov.

Federal prosecutors are set to begin building their case against two men described as leaders of a 2020 scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, their second chance to get convictions after a jury couldn't deliver a unanimous...

A second trial is underway for two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

At the White House press briefing on Tuesday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Biden administration was not aware of the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago before it happened.

Jury selection started Tuesday in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 over their disgust with restrictions early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

A jury has been selected in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over their disgust with restrictions early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Two men who were acquitted of plotting to kidnap Gov. Whitmer says details ‘jarring’ from trial of men charged with conspiring to kidnap herMan in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer denies involvement, tells jurors informant pushed the ideaGirlfriend of key figure in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot: ‘Dominoes will start falling’ with a governor’s hangingAlleged leaders of plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialGuns, flexible handcuffs in home of defendant in alleged plot to kidnap Gov.

The first trial of Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. ended in a mistrial in April when the jury couldn't reach a unanimous verdict against them.

Two men accused of crafting a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 and ignite a national rebellion are facing a second trial this week, months after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on the pair while acquitting two others.

Two men accused of coming up with a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 are facing a second trial this week.

Two men accused of crafting a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 and ignite a national rebellion are facing a second trial this week, months after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on the pair while acquitting two others. The result in April was a blow to federal prosecutors, who had set out to show that extremists were committed to snatching Whitmer and causing chaos close to the election between Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump. The trial of Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. means another public airing of secretly recorded conversations, text messages and chilling social media posts.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A federal judge said Thursday, June 30, that two men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will be retried after a jury in April failed to reach verdicts. Related:After deadlocked jury, men seek acquittal in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap case crashes: ‘Conspiracy that just never was,’ attorney saysDefendant’s dad: FBI, informants pushed Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot to ‘next level, not our guy’

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s chief lawyer has been approved as U.S. attorney based in Grand Rapids.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Two men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialGov. Whitmer kidnap case crashes: ‘Conspiracy that just never was,’ attorney says2 men acquitted in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot to ‘next level, not our guy’Too drunk, too stoned, still mad about COVID-19 orders: This week in the Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trial

A federal prosecutor has withdrawn from the case of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A jury last week couldn't reach a unanimous verdict for two men charged with a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

That a jury didn't convict any of the four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov_ Gretchen Whitmer is further evidence of the political polarization in the U_S_ A defense lawyer for one of the men says it shows freedom still exists, and that the men's actions were nothing more than “rough talk.”.

Jurors have acquitted two defendants of all charges in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer but couldn't agree on a verdict for two others.

A jury in the trial against four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer returned a mixed verdict.

Jurors acquitted two men and deadlocked on two others accused of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

Two of four men were acquitted Friday in a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, motivated by fury at the Democrat's tough COVID-19 restrictions early in the pandemic.

A jury in the trial against four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has returned a mixed verdict.

'Our differences must be settled at the ballot box, not through violence,' Lt. Gov. Gilchrist said

Jurors entered the fifth day of deliberations Friday with pennies that were offered as evidence of an explosive earlier in the trial of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jurors entered the fifth day of deliberations Friday with pennies that were offered as evidence of an explosive earlier in the trial of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jurors entered the fifth day of deliberations Friday with pennies that were offered as evidence of an explosive earlier in the trial of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A Michigan jury has ended its fourth day of deliberations without having reached verdicts in the trial of four men accused of scheming to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jurors entered a third day of deliberations Wednesday in a trial that centers on a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Three days and still no verdict.

Jurors deliberating at the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must answer a key question about whether the FBI engaged in entrapment.

Jurors returned to court to ask a question Monday but offered no verdict during the first day of deliberations in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jurors returned to court to ask a question Monday but offered no verdict during the first day of deliberations in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jurors haven't come up with a verdict yet after two days of deliberations in the trial of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Jury deliberations will resume Tuesday, April 5, in the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, prosecutor saysDefendant in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer manipulated by FBI, informant, attorney argues‘I always disagreed,’ defendant says, before alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer goes to juryMan in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialGirlfriend of key figure in alleged plot to kidnap Gov.

A jury in Michigan started its deliberations Monday in the trial of four men accused of designing a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A jury in Michigan started its deliberations Monday in the trial of four men accused of designing a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jurors have gone home without reaching a verdict after the first day of deliberations in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta are charged with conspiracy, and three also face weapons charges.

Jurors have heard closing arguments and will begin deliberations Monday in the trial of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

What’s not healthy is a mob mentality ... that’s never acceptable in our society.”Read more on MLive.com:Man in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer denies involvement, tells jurors informant pushed the ideaGirlfriend of key figure in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot: ‘Dominoes will start falling’ with a governor’s hangingAlleged leaders of plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialGuns, flexible handcuffs in home of defendant in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialMan who joined militia was alarmed by cop-killing talk, turned informant in Gov.

Whitmer kidnap plot trialGirlfriend of key figure in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot: ‘Dominoes will start falling’ with a governor’s hangingAlleged leaders of plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialMan in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot expected to die in shootout with policeDefense objects to ‘snitch’ invoking Fifth Amendment in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialFormer defendant: Gov.

One of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer testified in his own defense Thursday, repeatedly telling jurors “absolutely not” when asked if he agreed to abduct her before the 2020 election.

One of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer testified in his own defense Thursday, repeatedly telling jurors “absolutely not” when asked if he agreed to abduct her before the 2020 election.

The defense has rested and evidence is over in the trial of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – An informant in the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot: ‘Dominoes will start falling’ with a governor’s hangingAlleged leaders of plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen excited by bomb video, undercover FBI agent saysGuns, flexible handcuffs in home of defendant in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, FBI saysA ‘snitch,’ a liar and taking the Fifth: This week in the Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trial

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The girlfriend of Barry Croft Jr., a suspected leader of a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, testified Wednesday, March 30, of his long distrust of government. Chastity Knight, 40, of Bear, Delaware, said Croft had a podcast called, “We the People,” where he discussed constitutional issues.

Prosecutors in Michigan have rested their case against four men charged with planning to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before the 2020 national election.

Prosecutors rested their case Wednesday against four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before the 2020 national election.

The core question at the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is whether the FBI engaged in entrapment.

Jurors have seen provocative social media posts written by a key figure charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

Gretchen excited by bomb video, undercover FBI agent saysGuns, flexible handcuffs in home of defendant in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot expected to die in shootout with policeDefense objects to ‘snitch’ invoking Fifth Amendment in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialMan who joined militia was alarmed by cop-killing talk, turned informant in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trial‘I will die a saint, covered in blood,’ alleged leader of Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot said in FBI recording‘I’m gonna terrorize people,’ alleged leader of plot to kidnap Gov.

Prosecutors say Adam Fox wanted to blow up a bridge near Whitmer's second home to thwart any police response to a kidnapping.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – An undercover FBI special agent who posed as an explosives expert told jurors that key figures in the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Federal prosecutors had asked that Bates and another undercover FBI special agent be identified in court by pseudonyms for their protection. Related:Guns, flexible handcuffs in home of defendant in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot case says any help to defendants was intended to build trustUndercover FBI agent, informant come clean: This week in the Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot said in FBI recording‘I’m gonna terrorize people,’ alleged leader of plot to kidnap Gov.

An FBI agent who was working undercover says two key people in the plot to kidnap Michigan's governor were excited to get their hands on explosives.

Kaleb Franks, who pleaded guilty in February, spoke as a witness in the trial against four other men charged in the Whitmer kidnapping plot.

Defense lawyers are cross-examining a key witness in the trial of four men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jurors in Grand Rapids, Michigan, are hearing from a second man who pleaded guilty in a scheme to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – As he drove to a meeting spot at Walmart in Cadillac, Dan Chappel, an informant in the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap case, was joined by another informant and an undercover FBI agent. Defendant Barry Croft Jr. was with him, too.

A man charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was jubilant in 2020 when the state Supreme Court struck down COVID-19 orders.

After a vetting process – like a job interview, he said – he soon contacted the FBI and turned informant against defendants accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Related: FBI, informants drove plot to kidnap Gov. Related: Defendants in alleged Gov. Whitmer kidnap plan claim innocence, entrapmentHe has been accused of pushing the defendants to take part in the planning before they were arrested in early October 2020. Whitmer kidnap plot said in FBI recordingHe said that Fox, who lived in the basement of Vac Shack in Wyoming, once held a meeting there.

Jurors in Michigan are hearing from an Army veteran who became an FBI informant after hearing members of a militia talk about killing police.

Jurors have unflattering snapshots so far of four men charged with plotting to strike back against government by kidnapping Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A key figure in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov_ Gretchen Whitmer was secretly recorded telling an undercover FBI agent that he wanted to restrain the “tyrant” on a table, then pose for a photo “like we just made the biggest drug bust.”.

A key figure in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told an undercover FBI agent that he wanted to restrain the “tyrant” on a table then pose for a photo “like we just made the biggest drug bust," according to a secret recording played for jurors Thursday. Agent Mark Schweers told the jury that he was posing as someone with like-minded views from Michigan's Upper Peninsula when he met Adam Fox in the basement of a vacuum shop in suburban Grand Rapids, a hideaway accessed by a trap door. Fox didn't know that Schweers was wearing a recording device as he talked excitedly about attacking the Michigan Capitol, teaming up with a militia called the Wolverine Watchmen, and restoring a “constitutional republic.”

The trial of four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will resume Thursday after a three-day break because of a COVID-19 case.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — After more than two days of testimony, jurors were given unflattering snapshots of four men who are charged with planning to strike back against government by kidnapping Michigan Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trial delayed after ‘essential participant’ tests positive for COVID-19RELATED: Too drunk, too stoned, still mad about COVID-19 orders: This week in the Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trialCroft, Fox, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta are charged with conspiracy; three of them also face weapons-related charges. He was tapped by Croft to lead the plot, Roth said. ___Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trialMore:Alleged plot against governor signals shift toward violence among ‘citizen militia’: expertsMan accused of battering, yelling slurs at utility worker is brother of Ashli BabbittFirst Capitol riot trial ends with conviction on all counts

The trial of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been postponed until Thursday because an “essential” participant has tested positive for COVID-19.

Prosecutors have played covertly recorded audio for jurors in which a man charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer specifically mentions abducting the Democrat.

After more than two days of testimony, jurors have unflattering snapshots of four men who are charged with planning to strike back against government by kidnapping Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her weekend home. Prosecutors introduced videos, messages and secretly recorded conversations full of antigovernment screeds, mostly expressed by Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox, who are described as the leaders. Evidence presented early in what's likely to be a weekslong trial has bounced from Michigan to gatherings in Ohio and Wisconsin and an arrest in New Jersey — and not always in order.

Related: ‘I’m gonna terrorize people,’ alleged leader of plot to kidnap Gov. The defendants liked to smoke pot and drink at their meetings/training sessions. They are facing trial on federal charges accusing them in a plot to abduct Michigan's Democratic Gov. Whitmer kidnap trial loomsHe noted that a national group appointed Fox to be president of Michigan’s 3 Percenter patriot militia. Nils Kessler and Jonathan Roth, assistant U.S. attorneys, said the defendants – upset at the governor’s shutdown orders - planned to kidnap Whitmer at her summer home in Northern Michigan.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Jurors on Thursday, March 10, listened to secretly recorded, profanity-laced rants of the men who allegedly led the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. “I’m going to hurt people real … bad,” Barry Croft Jr. said in a recording. “I’m sorry for that, I really am, because it’s wrong.”

Prosecutors in the trial of four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer opened the first full day of testimony Thursday by showing jurors more profanity-filled messages and social media posts by two of the...

Prosecutors have played covertly recorded audio for jurors in which a man charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer specifically mentions abducting the Democrat.

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. In another recording made by the same informant, jurors heard the sound of an explosives test Croft was conducting.

Attorneys for four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are telling jurors they were swayed by informants and federal agents who targeted them for their anti-government views.

The four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were swayed by informants and federal agents who targeted them for their anti-government views, defense attorneys said Wednesday, portraying the men as big talkers and wannabes who never meant what they said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Roth argued that the men were “willing, eager, if not already preparing” to get Whitmer before investigators infiltrated the group. Investigators stepped in and stopped a “tragedy” when the men were planning to acquire a bomb to blow up a bridge near Whitmer’s home to stop police from quickly responding, Roth told jurors during his opening statement in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Four members of anti-government groups are facing trial this week go on federal charges accusing them of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

Jury selection begins Tuesday in the trial of four men who are accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A jury has been selected for the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Four members of anti-government groups are facing trial this week on federal charges accusing them in a chilling plot to abduct Michigan's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020.

Experts say far-right groups in the U.S. are taking a more dangerously radical turn as four men go on trial in an alleged scheme to kidnap Michigan’s governor.