Croft and Fox together with approximately 13 other individuals from several states met in Dublin, Ohio on June 6. A confidential source was present during the meeting, wherein they discussed creating a self-sufficient society that follows the Bill of Rights and several ways to achieve that goal from peaceful initiatives to violent actions. Some of the members of the group also discussed murdering “tyrants” or “taking” a sitting governor.”
Special Agent Trask also alleged that the group agreed to increase their membership by recruiting their neighbors and spreading their message. Fox reached out to a militia group in Michigan, which already caught the attention of the FBI and a local police department in March this year.
In June, Fox met different members of the militia group at different times.
On June 14, Fox told two confidential sources in a telephone conversation that he needed 200 men to attack the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, and take hostages including Gov. Whitmer.
During a meeting on June 18, Fox, the leadership of the militia group, a confidential source and a Michigan resident named Ty Garbin met a Second Amendment rally at the State Capitol. Fox told Garbin and the confidential source that he plans to attack the state Capitol and asked them to combine forces.
