After a three day pause due to a positive COVID test within the trial participants, the federal trial in the kidnapping plot against Governor Gretchen Whitmer resumed Thursday.
The trial was last in court a week ago, giving an entire week off as jurors started to hear from key witnesses in the trial.
Last time in the courtroom, jurors began to hear testimony from FBI Special Agent Christopher Long of Delaware, his role was the lead investigator into Barry Croft.
Thursday morning the proceedings began with the end of his cross examination.
The trial then shifted to a new witness, FBI Special Agent Mark Schweers, or Mark Woods, as he was known to the defendants.
Mark was posing as a like-minded individual from the Upper Peninsula that was tasked with investigating Adam Fox.
During his time with Fox, there were audio recordings of Fox laying out the missions and plans already in motion that included storming the State Capitol building and taking lawmakers hostage to “restore the constitutional republic.”
Fox also said at one point he wanted to handcuff Governor Whitmer and place her on a table to take photos of as a group, like a massive drug bust. He then said that he didn’t care if he went to prison, as long as she was there too.
Mark then had more recordings from training and meetings in Wisconsin and Luther, the group built explosives and trained for breaching buildings.
It was at the Luther training in September when a group of them met in Cadillac before heading to the governor’s lake house in Elk Rapids to scope it out.
Crews got a look at her house on Birch Lake, planning how to take out the bridge in town and snatch her from the house by way of the boat launch. Fox explained that they could then take her out to Lake Michigan and strand her there to send a message.
Cross examination of Mark began Thursday and will continue Friday with the defense seeming to focus on their client’s big tough words that don’t equate a viable plot. They say that they didn’t have the resources or wherewithal to actually go through with it.
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