A truck driver who has been described as the mastermind of a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 has been sentenced to 19 years in jail.Barry Croft Jr., 47, received the longest sentence of the four co-conspirators on Wednesday, just one day after his ally behind bars. Both men were convicted in August of conspiracy charges at a trial in Grand Rapids.They were accused of running a plot to abduct the governor from her vacation home just before the 2020 presidential election in an effort to ignite a 'Civil War' over what they deemed to be unconstitutional COVID-19 restrictions.
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