Capitol Riot arrests (1 Viewer)

[Bigdaddysaints]

Figured we should start a separate thread on the arrests and those involved in the storming of the Capitol. I know it has been talked about in the other thread a lot, but for the ones who just want to follow the ones arrested and/or charged, this will be an easier way to see updates on the investigations.

Link below is everyone who has been arrested. But we know there will be more.

Capitol Breach Cases

www.justice.gov

The website seems to be updated with new information daily.

The ones who are getting the most air time:

Notable Arrests After the Riot at the Capitol (Published 2021)

Dozens have been charged since a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

www.nytimes.com

Jake Angeli

Adam Johnson

Richard Barnett

Kevin Seefried

Eric Gavelek Munchel

Larry R. Brock
Lisa Eisenhart
Robert Keith Packer
Klete Keller
Aaron Mostofsky
Anthime Joseph Gionet
Peter Francis Stager
Christine Priola

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

Jury convicts former police officer on 6 counts related to January 6​

Robertson, who now likely faces up to 20 years in prison, was originally freed on pretrial supervision, but was later detained after the government said he allegedly had "a loaded M4 rifle and a partially-assembled pipe bomb at his home, and by purchasing an arsenal of 34 firearms online and transporting them in interstate commerce."

MSN

 

[Optimus Prime]

Good luck with that
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A Maryland man wants a judge to limit a jury from seeing jailhouse letters he wrote to a sheriff asking for help and other statements made to law enforcement after his arrest on Capitol riot charges.

Daniel Egtvedet, of Garrett County, Maryland, is scheduled to begin trial June 6 before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper. Egtvedt was indicted last March on multiple felony counts in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, including civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting and resisting police.

Video released following a legal challenge by a media coalition that includes WUSA9 appears to show Egtvedt berating and physically engaging with police on at least three different occasions on Jan. 6. The video appears to show Egtvedt entering the Capitol by force with a large group, shouting at officers in the crypt, attempting to push past officers in the Hall of Columns and eventually being restrained by at least five officers, before he is pushed backward, knocking into a column.

Egtvedt’s attorney, Kira Anne West, says her client suffered a concussion and lost consciousness when his head slammed into the column, although the video appears to show Egtvedt never stopped screaming as police picked him up off the floor and pushed him out of the Capitol. West said Egtvedt then went on to make “numerous” statements outside the Capitol while possibly concussed – but it’s statements he made to police more than a month later she wants a judge to suppress.........

While in custody in Maryland, Egtvedt also handwrote two letters to the Garrett County Sheriff asking him to intervene in his case. In the letters, Egtvedt described himself as a “legal citizen” of Garrett County and claimed the arrest was violating his “organic constitutional rights.” Egtvedt also warned that if he was transferred to D.C. it would “place me as a political prisoner in a foreign land.” Later, while being driven to the District, Egtvedt reportedly asked officers what “port” he was being taken to and mentioned “maritime law.”..........

MSN

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

It wasn't my fault, i hit my head!... i don't see that holding up..lol

 

[Optimus Prime]

It wasn't my fault, i hit my head!... i don't see that holding up..lol

at least he didn't blame the medication he was taking

 

[Optimus Prime]

one of the big 3 from that day (shaman and stealing podium waving guy are the other 2)
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Richard “Bigo” Barnett became one of the faces of the incursion at the Capitol when he was pictured sitting in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) with one boot-clad foot resting firmly on her desk.

He allegedly took an envelope from her desk but left behind a quarter. He left behind a note that he says definitely didn’t contain a sexist slur. According to prosecutors, he had a stun gun with him the whole time.

He also complained about being locked up in pretrial detention after his arrest, and although he has since been released, he may not be done serving time just yet.

On Tuesday, Barnett’s lawyer Joseph McBride told U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper that his client has rejected an offer from the government to plead guilty to a federal obstruction charge in exchange for dropping all the other charges against him, including theft of government property and disorderly conduct in a restricted building with a deadly or dangerous weapon. The obstruction charge carries a potential 20-year prison sentence, while the weapon charge is punishable by up to 10 years.

Barnett is also charged with a handful of misdemeanors.

After Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Dohrmann told Cooper about the government’s offer, including a provision that the sentencing guidelines would apply, McBride explained why his client rejected the deal.

McBride said that the sentencing guidelines would result in a prison term of 70 to 87 months, or just under six years to more than seven years.

“We’re talking about a 61-year-old man,” McBride said, adding that his client wasn’t violent “by any stretch of the imagination.”

Calling the offer “not reasonable,” McBride said that “it’s not something we could in good faith live with or be willing to accept.”..........

MSN

 

[MT15]

This guy has started mapping out the relationships among the Jan.6 insurrectionists. He assumed they were almost all ordinary people who just got caught up. But he has found around 30% (so far) have ties to extremist groups prior to Jan.6. It’s a pretty interesting thread, and he has changed his mind about who was there and why they were there.

 

[Optimus Prime]

someone else who couldn't his mouth shut
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On 6 January 2021, Jerry Braun hailed an Uber in Washington DC and got in the car, nursing a bleeding eye wound. The Uber driver noticed and asked, “So, has it been violent all day?”

“Well it started around, right when I got there. I tore down the barricades,” Braun bragged.

The conversation, captured on video by the driver’s recording device installed on the dashboard, triggered a 15-month long investigation by the FBI. Earlier this month, on 12 April, Braun was finally arrested by federal authorities and charged with violent entry or disorderly conduct, obstruction during civil disorder, and entering and remaining on restricted grounds, according to an affidavit by Lucas Bauers, FBI special agent.

Braun boasted openly to the Uber driver about his involvement in the deadly riots, which resulted in the deaths of five people. When he explained he’d torn down the barricades, the driver asked, “You did? Why?”

“Well, because, so we could get to the Capitol,” Braun replied.

The driver asked, “Well, how’d that work out for ya?”

“Well, it looks like, uh, Biden’s gonna be our president,” said Braun..........

Capitol rioter caught after FBI finds recording of him boasting to Uber driver

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

That last sentence is gold...lol

 

[Optimus Prime]

I predict a future guilty verdict
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WASHINGTON — A former New York City police officer who swung a flagpole at and tackled an officer protecting the U.S. Capitol is claiming self-defense, with his lawyer telling jurors that his actions on Jan. 6 were "really a show of restraint."

Thomas Webster, a Donald Trump supporter who was in D.C. on Jan. 6 in support of Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, is facing six charges, including a charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal officers using a dangerous weapon.

Webster is the fourth Capitol defendant to face a jury trial. Jan. 6 defendants Dustin Thompson, Thomas Robertson, and Guy Reffitt were each found guilty on all counts at their jury trials.

Video played during opening arguments on Tuesday shows Webster pushing a barricade and swinging a metal flagpole at an officer before tackling him to the ground, choking the officer with his gas mask.

But James E. Monroe, an attorney from Goshen, New York, who is representing Webster, told jurors that the officer struck Webster and “started this whole thing.” Monroe claimed the officer’s use of force as a mob pushed against the barricades was inappropriate, and said his client was upset by the force used against members of the mob of thousands who had already passed a barricade and were unlawfully present on the restricted grounds of the U.S. Capitol during a riot..............

Ex-cop who swung flagpole, tackled officer on Jan. 6 claims he showed 'restraint'

 

[MT15]

So, police officer shocked at force used against criminal rioters? Lol

 

[Optimus Prime]

Good
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A Maryland man who draped himself in a far right-affiliated flag and sprayed a fire extinguisher at police during the deadly Capitol attack on January 6 has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison, according to federal court records…….

Capitol rioter who sprayed police with fire extinguisher sentenced to three years

Matthew Ryan Miller from Maryland draped himself in a far right-affiliated flag and used a barricade as a ladder to scale walls

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Janet Buhler, 56, pleaded guilty in January to one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. That charge is a misdemeanor that carries a potential six-month jail sentence. As a result of her plea, the government agreed to drop four additional charges related to her participation in the pro-Donald Trump riot.

During the sentencing hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Hava Mirell sought to cast the defendant as a key player in the attack, which temporarily forced Congress to stop certifying President Joe Biden‘s 2020 electoral win.

The prosecutor described blaring alarms, pane after pane of broken glass from smashed windows and doors, and a cacophony of violent shouts and threats inside the building’s national seat of legislative government.

“1776!” a chorus-line of the mob shouted, Mirell said, as the rioters attempted to move forward. “Our house! Push!”

The prosecutor then noted that some of those shouting were explicitly violent and directed their ire toward police officers attempting to hold the line and repel the pro-Trump crowd that day.

“You’re life isn’t worth it!” they said to the officers. “You’re going to die.”

Mirell conceded that she couldn’t say for sure whether Buhler heard any of the direct threats against law enforcement but that the overall “flavor” of the scene inside that day would have been obvious.

And the defendant, the prosecutor said, “took one extra step” in interrupting the business of government and “violating our norms” by going into the U.S. Senate chamber, even though most of the rioters in the building stayed in predominantly public areas.

Mirell added that “with every step she took” through hallways past locked doors and offices, Buhler “should have” known or “would have” known that she was not allowed to be there...............

Utah Piano Teacher Who ‘Cheered and Applauded When the Rioters Broke Through’ on Jan. 6 Sentenced More Harshly Than Former Cop Stepson-in-Law

 

[Optimus Prime]

Not Jan 6th related but I’ll put this here
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(CNN) - The US Capitol Police on Friday charged a retired New York police officer with unlawful possession of high-capacity magazines and unregistered ammunition, according to the agency.

Officers arrested Jerome Felipe of Michigan around 5 a.m. ET Friday, the agency said. Felipe had parked his 2017 Dodge Charger near the Capitol and allowed officers to search it, according to a USCP statement…….

Former police officer arrested outside US Capitol with ammunition, fake badge and body armor | CNN Politics

The US Capitol Police on Friday charged a retired New York police officer with unlawful possession of high-capacity magazines and unregistered ammunition, according to the agency.

www.cnn.com

 

[coldseat]

Not Jan 6th related but I’ll put this here
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(CNN) - The US Capitol Police on Friday charged a retired New York police officer with unlawful possession of high-capacity magazines and unregistered ammunition, according to the agency.

Officers arrested Jerome Felipe of Michigan around 5 a.m. ET Friday, the agency said. Felipe had parked his 2017 Dodge Charger near the Capitol and allowed officers to search it, according to a USCP statement…….

Former police officer arrested outside US Capitol with ammunition, fake badge and body armor | CNN Politics

The US Capitol Police on Friday charged a retired New York police officer with unlawful possession of high-capacity magazines and unregistered ammunition, according to the agency.

www.cnn.com

Mass shooting rampages are all the rage. Every Tom, Dick and Jerome is trying to get in on it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

What's Tommy Lee Jones up to these days?
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Virginia man who bragged he was one of the first people to enter the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6 was officially declared a fugitive Tuesday, according to a new filing in D.C. District Court

In a filing reassigning his case to the court’s scheduling committee, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras identified Michael Gareth Adams as a fugitive. Adams’ case had until Tuesday been assigned to U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly..........

Virginia man declared fugitive after failing to appear for Capitol riot hearings

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[superchuck500]

I feel sorry for this guy that he’s so delusional, but asking the judge to agree with his delusions is the wrong approach.

 

[superchuck500]

I remember a lengthy Facebook Messenger debate I had with a friend of mine who until Covid seemed pretty reasonable. It all began when Facebook started taking down that ridiculous America's Frontline Doctors video basically promoting Ivermectin. The group was led by Simone Gold, a supposed physician in Los Angeles and included that doctor in Houston from Africa who is on YouTube preaching and talking about exorcisms. They were all crackpots giving medical advice about a novel disease killing people yet my friend thought it was so horrible of Facebook to take it down.

I remember looking at Simone Gold's bio and it was clear she hadn't really practiced medicine in many years - and had become some sort of conservative political activist trying to use her MD credentials as somehow validating her views.