State Entrapment Hearing Starts for Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Defendants

Michigan’s assistant attorney general, Sunita Doddamani, and FBI agent Henrik Impola during a break in the state entrapment hearing for the Whitmer kidnapping plot, in Jackson, Michigan, on Feb. 23, 2022. Impola was accused of perjury in a separate case. Ken Silva/Epoch Times

JACKSON, Mich.—The entrapment hearing for three former Wolverine Watchmen facing state charges in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer began Feb. 23, in what could be a preview of the upcoming federal trial for the alleged plot’s ringleaders.

Joseph Morrison, Pete Musico, and Paul Bellar have been charged under Michigan law with providing material support to a terrorist plot. Their case is separate from the federal charges against accused plot ringleaders Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta.