95.3 / 88.5 FM Grand Rapids and 95.3 FM Muskegon
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Lengthy prison terms are given for the three men who aided Whitmer kidnap plotter

Joe Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar are charged in Jackson County, Mich., with three crimes, including providing material support for terrorist acts.
Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center and Jackson County Sheriff's Office via AP
/
AP File
Joe Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar are charged in Jackson County, Mich., with three crimes, including providing material support for terrorist acts.

The three were convicted of providing material support for a terrorist act

Three men who forged an early alliance with the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for assisting him in 2020.

Pete Musico on Thursday was given a minimum term of 12 years while his son-in-law Joe Morrison got 10 years. Paul Bellar was given seven years.

They'll be eligible for parole at that time. The three were convicted in October of providing material support for a terrorist act.

Musico, Morrison, and Bellar were members of a paramilitary group known as the Wolverine Watchmen. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was never physically harmed by the plot. Separately, four people were convicted of a kidnapping conspiracy in federal court.

Jennifer is an award winning broadcast news journalist with more than two decades of professional television news experience including the nation's fifth largest news market. She's worked as both news reporter and news anchor for television and radio in markets from Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo all the way to San Francisco, California.
Related Content