Convicted member of plot to kidnap Michigan governor sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison | CNN Politics

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A Michigan federal choose sentenced a person convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to nearly 20 years in prison Wednesday.

Barry Croft Jr. was half of a plan to kidnap the Democratic governor from her summer season residence in 2020 and practiced detonating explosives in preparation, prosecutors have mentioned.

Croft, who was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison, the longest sentence of the folks convicted, is the final of the defendants in federal court docket to be sentenced in connection to the plot.

Prosecutors had requested the choose 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, thought-about to be a frontrunner of the plot with Croft, to 16 years in prison.

Croft was additionally convicted of one depend of possession of an unregistered damaging system.

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