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A Wisconsin man who drove past the vacation home of Michigan’s governor during a scheme to kidnap her in 2020 is returning to court to change his not-guilty plea, records show.

Brian Higgins could spend up to 5 years in prison after admitting to attempting to provide support for terrorism in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Barry Croft Jr.'s co-defendant Adam Fox was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Tuesday.

The co-leader of a group that plotted to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Barry Croft Jr., was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison Wednesday.

The co-leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for conspiring to abduct the Democrat and blow up a bridge to ease an escape.

A relative of two of the men sentenced this week with the longest prison terms so far in connection to the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is speaking out.

The attorney said that prosecutors’ sentencing “memorandum employs exaggerated language to create the false narrative of a terrifying para-military leader.”

Five men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will stand trial.

Both Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were convicted of conspiring to kidnap Michigan's governor.

Three men—Joseph Morrison and his father in-law Pete Musico and Paul Bellar—were convicted in state court Wednesday on all charges for providing assistance to those plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.