{"id":3349,"date":"2020-11-13T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T18:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2020-12-14T18:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:18:05","slug":"bond-lowered-for-two-in-whitmer-kidnapping-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"Bond lowered for two in Whitmer kidnapping plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">A judge has lowered the bond for two suspects in the alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wednesday attorneys for twin brothers Michael and William Null appeared virtually before a judge in Antrim County. The attorneys argued the $250,000 \u201call-cash\u201d bond is constitutionally excessive. A state prosecutor countered, saying the brothers are extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Nulls are facing charges of providing material support for terrorism potentially a 20-year felony. At first, 86th District Court Judge Michael S. Stepka denied the request. He then agreed to change it to a 10% cash surety bond<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cEven though the charges fall into a category that does not congregate against an individual, they are still allegedly a danger to the public, government officials, the governor, law enforcement from everything I\u2019ve read in the motion,\u201d said Stepka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Null brothers are among 13 people facing state or federal charges in the alleged plot. Investigators say they planned to overthrow several state governments that they believed violated the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has lowered the bond for two suspects in the alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bond lowered for two in Whitmer kidnapping plot - Lansing Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3349\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bond lowered for two in Whitmer kidnapping plot - Lansing Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A judge has lowered the bond for two suspects in the alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3349\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lansing Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-13T18:17:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-12-14T18:18:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ACLSGIJDQVEK5EDL2GBB7HF6JQ.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Theona Miller\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Lansing Report\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3349#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ACLSGIJDQVEK5EDL2GBB7HF6JQ.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3349#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3349\",\"name\":\"Bond lowered for two in Whitmer kidnapping plot - Lansing Report\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3349#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-13T18:17:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-14T18:18:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6888a5f573aaec6c17a232d2cf444ab4\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3349\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6888a5f573aaec6c17a232d2cf444ab4\",\"name\":\"Theona Miller\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}