Jury gets case of 2 men charged in Gov. Whitmer plot

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE
Associated Press

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Jurors have gone home after an afternoon of deliberations in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Prosecutors say Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were united in an agreement to get Whitmer at her vacation home in 2020 and trigger a civil war just before the presidential election. Whitmer wasn’t harmed. Fox, Croft and four other men were arrested hours away. Fox and Croft are on trial for a second time in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after a jury in April couldn’t reach a verdict but acquitted two other men. Defense lawyers say Fox and Croft were entrapped by FBI agents and undercover informants who got inside the group. Croft is from Bear, Delaware, while Fox lived in western Michigan. Jurors will return Tuesday.