13 Charged in Alleged Plot to Kidnap Michigan Governor

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the media in Midland, Mich., on May 20, 2020. Rebecca Cook/Reuters

The FBI broke up a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, federal and state authorities said.

U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Andrew Birge told reporters on Oct. 8 that the six men who were arrested and charged “conspired to kidnap the governor from her vacation home in the Western District of Michigan before the November election.”