Clayton News

Accused of leading a conspiracy to kill a police officer to ignite a larger overthrow of the government, they won acquittal on the most serious charges in March and were set free from the Wayne County jail in Detroit.

Tina Stone, on the lap of her husband, David Stone, Sr., gets a hug from grandson Elijah in the living room of Mrs.

This file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows David Brian Stone Sr.

DETROIT – In a sharp rebuke, a federal judge Tuesday acquitted seven members of a Michigan militia group of plotting to overthrow the U.S. government with weapons of mass destruction.