Attorney Nils Kessler.Ĭroft told the group that he “needed to take a nap … to have energy” if they were going to abduct Whitmer that night, but that wasn’t the plan, Bates said. Traveling in three vehicles, Bates said he, Fox, Croft and others drove to Elk Rapids to look at Whitmer’s house on Birch Lake and inspect a nearby bridge. Fox was excited about what he saw in the video,” Bates told the jury, adding that Croft “was also excited.” Prosecutors say Fox especially wanted to blow up a bridge near Whitmer’s second home in northern Michigan to thwart any police response to a kidnapping.īates, who was secretly recording conversations, said he showed up for a training weekend in Luther, Michigan, and shared videos of explosives blowing up an SUV. In summer 2020, Tim Bates was working undercover as “Red” when he fooled the group into believing that he knew someone in the mining industry who could get high-grade explosives.Ī bomb is a key part of the government’s case against Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, who are charged with conspiring to kidnap Whitmer because of her tough COVID-19 policies and their broad disgust with government. Gretchen Whitmer were thrilled as they watched videos of powerful explosives, a few hours before driving north to scout her vacation home, an FBI agent testified Monday. Two men described as leaders of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer kidnap plotters ‘excited’ about bombBy ED WHITEAssociated PressThe Associated Press In total, there were at least 40 undercover agents at the riots, the motion said.An FBI agent who was working undercover says two key people in the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor were excited to get their hands on explosivesĪgent: Gov. In the motion filed this week, Pezzola's attorney, Roger Roots wrote that two other law enforcement agencies outside of the FBI had undercover agents at the January 6 riots, including "13 undercover plain-clothes agents" with the Washington D.C. According to the motion filed in early March, government witness Special Agent Nicole Miller provided the court all digital messages related to her testimony however, a further review of an Excel sheet showed additional messages that appeared to be hidden. During this period of time, the CHS also participated in prayer meetings with members of one or more of the defendants' families," Carmen Hernandez, an attorney for Rehl, wrote in a motion on March 23.Īdditionally, an attorney for Nordean previously filed a motion after " hidden messages" between two FBI agents were revealed. "During this period of time, the CHS has been in contact via telephone, text messaging and other electronic means, with one or more of the counsel for the defense and at least one defendant. Last month, the trial was halted after the government revealed that one witness scheduled to testify was an informant. The trial has faced several hiccups over the past few months as the attorneys for the Proud Boys have filed numerous motions. On Wednesday, April 5, 2023, an attorney for one of the Proud Boys members called on the government to reveal the informants and undercover agents at the January 6 riots. The motion this week comes amid the ongoing trial for the Proud Boys, where members including Pezzola, as well as Ethan Nordean, Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl, have been accused of seditious conspiracy and several other charges, in connection to the January 6 riots at the Capitol.Ī member of the Proud Boys holds an US national flag during a rally against gender-affirming care by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, at the War Memorial Plaza in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 21, 2022. The existence, and likely conduct of these CHSs is almost certainly exculpatory for Pezzola." "The federal prosecutors in this case are refusing to disclose information regarding these non-FBI informants. "Pezzola recently learned that a federal agency other than FBI-the Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) unit-was handling and running undercover CHSs on Jan. In a motion filed on Wednesday, the attorney for Proud Boys member Dominic Pezzola compelled the government "to reveal all informants, undercover operatives and other Confidential Human Sources (CHSs) relating to the events of January 6." government to unmask all of the informants and undercover agents involved in the January 6 Capitol riots. An attorney for a member of the Proud Boys recently called on the U.S.
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