US EditionMan pleads guilty to assisting in plot to kidnap Michigan governor
- Shawn Michael Fix, one of the five men charged with providing material support for the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, plans to change his plea from not guilty.
- Fix was second-in-command to ringleader Adam Fox in a paramilitary group. Prosecutors say he participated in field training exercises and provided false information about being a Navy SEAL and having access to weapons.
- Four men were convicted in federal court for their involvement in the kidnapping plot, and three other men were convicted in a separate but related trial in October.
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Plea change set for man accused of backing plot to kidnap Michigan governor
BELLAIRE, Mich. (AP) — A man prosecutors describe as an anti-government extremist who backed a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to change his plea from not guilty, court records show. Shawn Michael Fix is one of five men charged with providing material support for an act of terrorism in the scheme to abduct the Democratic governor in 2020 at her northern Michigan vacation home. Police broke up the plan and Whitmer was not phys…
Man pleads guilty to assisting in plot to kidnap Michigan governor
A man accused of aiding a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor pleaded guilty Wednesday, the ninth conviction in state and federal courts since agents broke up an astonishing scheme by anti-government rebels in 2020.Shawn Fix said he provided material support for an act of terrorism, namely the strategy to snatch Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home in Antrim County. Prosecutors agreed to drop a weapon charge.
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