The first sentencing in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last year is expected to be handed down Wednesday afternoon.

       Ty Garbin, a 25-year-old airplane mechanic, was charged with providing material support for terrorist acts and felony firearms charges.

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       Garbin initially pleaded not guilty to the charges but changed his plea and cooperated with investigators within weeks of being arrested, The Associated Press reported. He willingly put a "target on his back to begin his own redemption," according to a court filing by the Department of Justice.

       Prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker to take Garbin's cooperation into consideration during sentencing.

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       Federal and state officials execute a search warrant on a home in Hartland, Mich., late on Oct. 7, 2020.

       The government has recommended that Garbin serve a nine-year prison term, according to the AP.

       Thirteen other men have been charged for orchestrating the plot to kidnap Whitmer, a Democrat, which was thwarted by the FBI in October.

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       The men had also planned a paramilitary operation that included sinister plots to execute government officials, storm the Capitol building with explosives and send bombs codenamed "cupcakes," according to the FBI.

       The Michigan State Capitol had been the scene of numerous protests by right-wing activists -- some of them armed -- during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Some called for Whitmer's resignation due to the lockdown order she put in place.

       Kent County Sherif via AP

       An undated mugshot provided by the Kent County Sheriff shows Ty Garbin.

       Whitmer blamed then-President Donald Trump for "stoking" hate in the country.

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       "This should be a moment for national unity where we all pull together as Americans to meet this challenge head on with the same might and muscle that put a man on the moon," Whitmer said at a press conference on Oct. 8, 2020, the day the news of the plot was released. "Instead our head of state has spent the past seven months denying science, ignoring his own health experts, stoking distrust and fomenting anger and giving comfort to those who spread hatred and division."

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       Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks during a news conference in Detroit, Mic., Aug. 16, 2021.

       Whitmer later described the plat against her as "shocking" in an interview with "Nightline" co-anchor Juju Chang last year.

       "It really is something that is so personal and so serious," she said. "If you heard this fact pattern and you are describing something like ISIS, you wouldn't be surprised. This is happening right here in the United States of America. That's domestic terrorism."