Justin Watkins, 25 years old and of Bad Axe, was sentenced in Tuscola County yesterday for crimes he committed while the self-proclaimed leader of ‘The Base,’ a white supremacist group founded in 2018. Watkins was sentenced to a mandatory 2 year charge for a felony firearm charge that will run consecutive to the 32 months to 4 years he also received for one count of conspiracy at sentencing by Tuscola County Judge Amy Gierhart . Watkins has the dubious honor of being the first defendant in Michigan’s history to face a charge of conspiring to train for a civil disorder,...