FILE – This combination of photos provided by the Kent County Sheriff and the Delaware Department of Justice shows, top row from left, Brandon Caserta and Barry Croft; and bottom row from left, Adam Dean Fox and Daniel Harris. The four members of anti-government groups are facing trial in March 2022 on federal charges accusing them in a plot to abduct Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. Jury selection begins Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in a trial the presiding judge at the U.S. District Court courthouse in Grand Rapids, Mich., said could take over a month. (Kent County Sheriff, Delaware Department of Justice via AP File)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Jurors have acquitted two of four defendants of conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer but couldn’t agree on a verdict for two others.
The verdicts on the charges against Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta were read Friday at the federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Harris and Caserta were acquitted.
The jurors could not agree on verdicts for Croft and Fox. Croft is from Delaware and the others are from Michigan.
Defense attorneys portrayed their clients as weekend warriors prone to wild talk, who were often stoned.
They said FBI undercover agents and informants tricked the men into agreeing to a conspiracy.
Prosecutors entered evidence that the men discussed abducting Whitmer before the FBI sting began.
