Man sentenced to prison after admitting plot to kidnap Michigan governor

Ty Garbin gets six and a quarter years after pleading guilty

Five others remain charged with plot to seize Gretchen Whitmer

A man upset over state-ordered coronavirus restrictions was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday for planning to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.

Ty Garbin admitted his role in the alleged scheme weeks after his arrest last fall. He is among six men charged in federal court but the only one to plead guilty so far. It was an important victory for prosecutors as they try to prove the other five men were involved in the astonishing plot.