Whitmer Kidnapping Plot

As the prosecution rests, we get an update in the trial of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Governor Whitmer. Plus, writer Kelsey Ronan's new book tells an interracial love story set in her hometown of Flint.

Prosecutors rested their case in the trial of four men charged in a plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. We caught up on what’s been happening in the courthouse—and what to expect as the defense takes over.

Ty Garbin was initially charged in the alleged plot, but pleaded guilty. Wednesday he said the men hoped to create chaos and prevent Biden from becoming president.

Dan Chappel's FBI handlers told him not to suggest ideas to the alleged plotters when he was brought on as an informant. But he admitted in the trial Monday that he had.

Undercover FBI agent Mark Schweers testified in the federal kidnapping trial on Thursday.

The federal trial of four defendants accused of a plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer began this week in Grand Rapids. We talked to reporter Dustin Dwyer about what happened in court.

Defense attorneys for the men say the recordings amount to "just talk" and there was no real plan to kidnap the governor.

Before they switched to an encrypted messaging app, some of the defendants talked of taking out "tyrants" in private Facebook chats, prosecutors say.

Two years since the first case was confirmed in Michigan, a jury was selected in the federal trial of four men who are accused of plotting to kidnap the governor in response to her pandemic orders.

Seventeen months after they were first arrested, four men will go on trial for allegedly plotting to kidnap Michigan's governor.