Blog tagged as Crime

The self-professed executive officer of the Genesee County Volunteer Militia was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday for clobbering Capitol police with a baton he stole from one of them during chaos on Jan. 6, 2021.

One convicted conspirator in the failed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot was sentenced to prison Thursday and a second was given probation as the last two of the eight accused conspirators were adjudicated.

The House failed to get the votes needed to pass legislation directing a piece of the state’s sales tax revenue to local governments with high crime rates after Republican members in politically competitive Detroit suburbs and four Democrats declined to vote.

Attorneys for two of the 16 GOP would-be 2020 electors asked a judge to dismiss their clients’ criminal charges, with one proclaiming “there is no crime” and another challenging the Attorney General’s “brainwashed” description of the defendants.

Three men and their family members cried as the jury foreperson announced Friday that each defendant was not guilty of providing material support to a terrorist act in connection with the plot to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.