The FBI FBI said Tuesday it had thwarted a plan by local Michigan militia gane plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer and hit state government, AP and other media reported.
FBI said the militia gane plans to storm the Michigan parliament building and use incendiary bomb to burn police cars. FBI learned from internal contacts and audio recordings of the plotters that the gane was prepared to shock and burn Governor Whitmer's home before the November 3 election and hijack her if she could not be killed instantly.
FBI said he had been watching the gane, as early as march when the gane searched the local clerk's address in an attempt to commit the crime, FBI has been gathering information through informants and undercover agents. Current michigan president whitmer is a female democrat, and american media POLITICO》 says she was one of the candidates for the vice-presidential nomination of democratic presidential candidate biden.
On October 8, local time, after six men conspired to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the western was acciused of Michigan, Andrew, a prosecutor in the western Michigan region, told the public that law enforcement would work together to ensure leader were protected. If convicted, the six men will be sentenced to life imprisonment, the state's maximum penalty.
It is reported that the six men "communicate through encrypted message platforms" and use code words to avoid detection by law enforcement officials. During the event, conspirators conducted two coordinated surveillance of the governor's resort house. One of the men bought a taser for kidnapping. A simple explosion device with shrapnel was also successfully detonated to test its lethality.
"Nevertheless, we want the public to know that the federal government and the state government's law enforcement agencies will work together to ensure that violence extremist will never succeed in implementing their plans, especially when they target our elected leader ," he said. "
