A man who admitted his role in a scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday. Ty Garbin received a significantly lower sentence due to his prompt decision to cooperate with prosecutors who were building cases against five other alleged conspirators. Garbin is the first of the six alleged conspirators to plead guilty so far. He had admitted his role in the plot weeks after being arrested last fall. At the sentencing hearing, he apologized to the governor and her family. “I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of stress and fear her family felt because of my actions,” Garbin, 25, said. “And for that I am truly sorry.” According to the plea deal, Garbin said he and five other men trained at his property in Luther, Michigan, where they built a house resembling Whitmer’s vacation home and assaulted it with …
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