(WWJ) -- Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to go easy on a suspect in the kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Ty Garbin pleaded guilty to conspiracy just four months after being arrested, becoming the only person to admit to his involvement on the wild plan to abduct the Democratic governor from her vacation home.
In a court filing on Wednesday, the feds said Garbin, a 25-year-old Hartland native, should be credited for assisting investigators, and therefore are recommending he receive a nine-year prison sentence.
“…he dispelled any suggestion that the conspirators were entrapped by government informants,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler wrote (via The Detroit News). “Months before any of them began suggesting it in pretrial motions, Garbin testified that (Barry) Croft and (Adam) Fox were the ringleaders of the plot, and that he and the other conspirators joined it willfully.”
In October of 2020, the government said it derailed a plan to kidnap Whitmer by anti-government extremists who were retaliating against the governor’s COVID restrictions in the state.
Six men, including Garbin, were charged in federal court for the conspiracy, while several others were charged in state court for aiding their efforts.
Garbin -- who’s guilty plea initially called for 17-and-a-half years behind bars -- will be sentenced in federal court on Aug. 25 in Grand Rapids.
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