A juror was relieved of her jury duties in the trial of three men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over concerns that she was flirting with one of the defendants.
On Friday, Judge Thomas Wilson announced that the juror, described by the Jackson Citizen Patriot as “a young woman” had been removed from the jury after she was accused of flirting with defendant Paul Bellar.
Bellar, a member of a paramilitary group named the Wolverine Watchmen, is standing trial with co-defendants Joseph Morrison and Pete Musico in a plot to “storm the state Capitol building and kidnap elected officials,” according to the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.
