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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A total of 31 Patriot Front members, including one identified as its founder, were arrested in 2022 after someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like “a little army.”

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[-] Umbra@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Isn't this that group that has more feds than real members? And that was entrapped by feds to kidnap some politician but the whole case was dismissed because... entrapment

[-] ForestOrca@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

I'mma roll with No. Read the article they were convicted, which means that the case was NOT dismissed.

[-] Umbra@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Apologies, this was another group that I was thinking of

[-] SplicedWren@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago

And in the other case, two were acquited, two received a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury, and two pleas guilty to conspiracy.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And the two who received a mistrial were retried, found guilty, and both sentenced to over 15 years

e; and that was just the federal charges, there was a state level case that sent a bunch more to prison for a while too

[-] SplicedWren@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Thank you for elaborating. Definitely seems like the above poster was pretty off base.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh cool. Which one?

[-] Rom@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

You're probably thinking of the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot in Michigan, but that still got a whole bunch of convictions.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Everyone who makes me look bad by agreeing with me in public is a fed.

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