Gretchen Whitmer kidnap ringleader, Adam Fox, sentenced to 16 years
Criminal Justice,Gretchen Whitmer,FBI,Polarization
The ringleader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Adam Fox, 39, appeared in front of US District Court Judge Richard Jonker on Tuesday.
Earlier this year he was found guilty of planning to abduct Ms Whitmer from her holiday home with other militiamen.
The group targeted the Democratic governor in 2020 because they were opposed to Covid rules she imposed early in the pandemic.
As well as conspiring to abduct Ms Whitmer, Fox was sentenced for planning to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow up a bridge after the kidnapping, to make it easier to escape.
Fox and his co-defendant Barry Croft Jr, 47, were found guilty by a federal court in August. Croft, who is also a member of the Three Percenters militia group, is due to be sentenced on Wednesday.
In August, a jury determined that the two men were guilty of conspiring to obtain weapons of mass destruction - a bomb - to blow up a bridge in order to thwart a police response to the planned kidnapping.
