(WWJ) Court documents are revealing more disturbing details about an alleged militia plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and take over the state Capitol.
The Michigan Attorney General's Office says the group leader Adam Fox’s “Plan A” included storming the Capitol building, taking hostages and televising the execution of "tyrants" -- with no one making it out alive.
The Detroit Free Press says a brief filed in Jackson County’s 12th District Court claims an alternate plot, involved locking the doors to the Capitol and setting the building on fire with lawmakers trapped inside.
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The documents obtained by the newspaper were submitted before a bond hearing for 42-year-old Pete Musico who was released on a GPS tether last month. His attorney says Musico was kicked out of the group accused of planning the attacks.
On Tuesday, another man accused in the case was released on bond. While an attorney for 38-year-old Shawn Fix of Belleville said his client had very little to do with the case, Assistant Attorney General Townsend argued that Fix and his co-defendants were all "extremely dangerous."
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“They belong to a group, a militia group, called the Wolverine Watchmen. All these individuals were committed to violence to target government, government officials, politicians," Townsend said.
A total of 14 men are facing state or federal charges related to the plot, uncovered by the FBI last month.