DETROIT — The changes in David Brian Stone’s personal theology partly destroyed his marriage, his former wife says, and prosecutors claim they later led him to hatch a plot to kill police officers.
“The time had come that we needed to arrest them and take them down,” U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said Tuesday.
Prosecutors believe that Stone, 44, of Clayton, is the ringleader of the Hutaree militia. Donna Stone, 44, said her ex-husband created the legal problems now faced by her stepson, Joshua Stone, and her son, David Brian Stone Jr., by involving them in a militia that grew out of his faith.
“I honestly feel . . . their dad never told either of those boys what they were getting into,” she said.
Both boys were home-schooled, and the family would pray together.
“David would preach out of the Bible,” said Donna Stone, who said she was married to David Brian Stone for about six years. “He would start at the beginning of Genesis and go to Revelations. He didn’t get into Revelations because we didn’t agree on it. . . . He had his own views. That’s when I thought it was time for me to go.”
