FBI annouced today that six Michigan residents, along with two residents of Ohio and a resident of Indiana, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit on charges of seditious conspiracy, attempted use of weapons of mass destruction, teaching the use of explosive materials, and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade and FBI Special Agent in Charge Andrew Arena .
The five count indictment, which was unsealed today, charges that between
August 2008 and the present, the defendants, David Brian Stone, 45, his wife, Tina
Stone, 44, his son, Joshua Matthew Stone, 21, of Clayton, Michigan, and his other son,
David Brian Stone, Jr., 19, of Adrian, Michigan, Joshua Clough, 28, of Blissfield,
Michigan, Michael Meeks, 40 of Manchester, Michigan, Thomas Piatek, 46, of Whiting,
Indiana, Kristopher Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio, and Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron,
Ohio, acting as a Lenawee County Michigan militia group called the Hutaree, conspired
to oppose by force the authority of the U.S. government. VIDEO
