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    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 www.justice.gov

    The website seems to be updated with new information daily.

    The ones who are getting the most air time:

    www.nytimes.com

    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 www.nytimes.com

    Jake Angeli
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    Adam Johnson
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    Richard Barnett
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    Kevin Seefried
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    Eric Gavelek Munchel
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    Larry R. Brock
    Lisa Eisenhart
    Robert Keith Packer
    Klete Keller
    Aaron Mostofsky
    Anthime Joseph Gionet
    Peter Francis Stager
    Christine Priola
     
    superchuck500 said:
    Because it’s not all or nothing - someone can be remorseful and still go to trial. Someone can be remorseful after a verdict. If remorse is the issue make it the issue - but making the government prove its case doesn’t necessarily mean the person couldn’t be remorseful.
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    I have always assumed that if your found guilty by trial, you're likely to serve more time than if you would have pleaded guilty before trial. Mostly because when you reach a plea deal they typically reduce the charges by design. Whereas if you go to trial, the prosecution is likely to charge you for everything they're able to and ask for a longer sentence if found guilty.

    Is that not usually the case?
     
    coldseat said:
    I have always assumed that if your found guilty by trial, you're likely to serve more time than if you would have pleaded guilty before trial. Mostly because when you reach a plea deal they typically reduce the charges by design. Whereas if you go to trial, the prosecution is likely to charge you for everything they're able to and ask for a longer sentence if found guilty.

    Is that not usually the case?
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    Yes, I think that's true - a plea bargain is a settlement, so typically the bargain to the defendant is that there is some element of a reduction compared to what could happen at trial. Often this is through either pleading to a lesser charge, or an agreed upon sentence recommendation that is below what the statute(s) call for. Keep in mind thought that sentencing is not up to the prosecutor and all they can agree to do is recommend a certain sentence - the judge always has the final say and can disregard the prosecutor's recommendation. A lesser charge, however, is within the prosecutor's purview (and agree to dismiss the greater charge).

    But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about where a judge considers the fact that the defendant went to trial as an aggravating factor that should lead to a higher sentence. I don't think that should be part of the consideration. I think it's fundamental that we always have the right to remain innocent until proven guilty and I don't think Americans should be punished for exercising that right. Punish the person for the crime - not the trial.
     
    It wasn't me, I was reading to blind orphans at the time
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    As authorities tell it, convicted burglar Bryan Betancur made what seemed to be a reasonable request to Maryland probation officials a few days before the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Prohibited from leaving the state without permission, he asked to travel to the District on Jan. 6, 2021, so that he could hand out Bibles on behalf of the Christian group The Gideons International.

    Maryland’s division of parole and probation said okay.

    “Betancur provided [his] probation officer with updates throughout the day and communicated that he would not be home by the normal curfew time,” a federal prosecutor said in a court filing.

    In a recent plea deal, Betancur acknowledged that his story about distributing the Good Book was a ruse. Instead, clad in a shirt bearing a logo of the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence, he attended Donald Trump’s incendiary rally on the Ellipse, after which Betancur stormed the Capitol with an angry mob of fellow Trump supporters trying to prevent Congress from affirming Joe Biden’s electoral victory, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington.

    Betancur, described by the FBI as a white supremacist who lived with his mother in Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced Wednesday to four months behind bars for participating in the riot. Although his age isn’t clear (prosecutors say he is 24; his attorney says 22), there was no dispute in U.S. District Court in D.C. regarding his Jan. 6 whereabouts.

    What helped give him away: On the day of the insurrection, he was wearing a GPS tracking device that had been affixed to one of his ankles by probation officials after his release from incarceration in a Maryland burglary case.............


     
    A Virginia police officer who prosecutors say lied about his actions before, during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, including his military service and his marriage, was sentenced Thursday to 87 months in prison.


    Thomas Robertson and Jacob Fracker were members of the police department in the small western Virginia town of Rocky Mount when they joined the mob that stormed the Capitol. Both have since been fired.


    “You were not some bystander who just got swept up in the crowd,” Judge Christopher R. Cooper said at Robertson’s sentencing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington. “It really seems as though you think of partisan politics as war and that you continue to believe these conspiracy theories.”


    Robertson, 49, was found guilty by a jury earlier this year of six crimes, including using a large wooden stick to block police outside the Capitol and destroying his phone when he got home. Fracker, who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge, testified at the trial…….

     
    A former Virginia police officer who testified against a friend and former supervisor he joined at the Capitol in the Jan. 6 insurrection avoided prison time on Tuesday for his role in it.

    Former Rocky Mount Police Officer Jacob Fracker pleaded guilty to conspiring with his fellow officer to obstruct Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory over then-President Donald Trump and was sentenced to one year of probation, with 59 days in home confinement.

    Prosecutors did not seek prison time for Fracker, pointing to his substantial cooperation and trial testimony against former Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson.

    Fracker's cooperation came at “great personal cost,” prosecutors said, noting that Robertson was not only Fracker's colleague but also a father figure he sometimes referred to as “dad.”

    Robertson, an Army veteran who was convicted by a jury of attacking the Capitol to obstruct Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced last week to more than seven years behind bars. That matches the longest prison sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases...........

     
    “Can you guess who my favorite president is?” asked the man about to be sentenced for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

    Senior Judge Thomas F. Hogan did not respond. So John Cameron, a real estate agent from the Seattle area, answered his own question. “Ronald Reagan,” he said during the hearing Monday, suggesting the judge might agree. Hogan was appointed to the federal bench in Washington by Reagan 40 years ago.

    Cameron, 55, went on to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, which Reagan made part of Flag Day ceremonies that same year.

    The judge was not impressed. He had questions of his own. How, he asked, could Cameron claim to have seen no violence or clear sign he could not enter the Capitol during the riot? Did he not hear murderous chants and blaring alarms, smell tear gas, see people climbing up scaffolding and through windows? Did he think, as he said on Facebook, that it was all “fun”? And if so, was he withdrawing his plea to a misdemeanor charge?

    “No,” Cameron replied, after a moment’s hesitation. “I picketed within the Capitol, and that was illegal. ... I would never do it again.”

    But his depiction of himself in court and on social media as a peaceful observer targeted for political reasons prompted an angry lecture from the judge.

    “I keep hearing from Jan. 6 defendants, ‘We’re being prosecuted,’ like it’s a surprise, or ‘We’re being persecuted,’ like it’s unfair. I do not understand that psychology,” Hogan told him. “What irritates me most is that all of you are claiming you’re patriots; you’re not patriots when you attack the Capitol of the United States.”..........

     
    Optimus Prime said:
    “Can you guess who my favorite president is?” asked the man about to be sentenced for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

    Senior Judge Thomas F. Hogan did not respond. So John Cameron, a real estate agent from the Seattle area, answered his own question. “Ronald Reagan,” he said during the hearing Monday, suggesting the judge might agree. Hogan was appointed to the federal bench in Washington by Reagan 40 years ago.

    Cameron, 55, went on to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, which Reagan made part of Flag Day ceremonies that same year.

    The judge was not impressed. He had questions of his own. How, he asked, could Cameron claim to have seen no violence or clear sign he could not enter the Capitol during the riot? Did he not hear murderous chants and blaring alarms, smell tear gas, see people climbing up scaffolding and through windows? Did he think, as he said on Facebook, that it was all “fun”? And if so, was he withdrawing his plea to a misdemeanor charge?

    “No,” Cameron replied, after a moment’s hesitation. “I picketed within the Capitol, and that was illegal. ... I would never do it again.”

    But his depiction of himself in court and on social media as a peaceful observer targeted for political reasons prompted an angry lecture from the judge.

    “I keep hearing from Jan. 6 defendants, ‘We’re being prosecuted,’ like it’s a surprise, or ‘We’re being persecuted,’ like it’s unfair. I do not understand that psychology,” Hogan told him. “What irritates me most is that all of you are claiming you’re patriots; you’re not patriots when you attack the Capitol of the United States.”..........

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    Nay, not patriots...but rather...traitors, the lot of them.
     
    A QAnon conspiracy theorist who was arrested when he showed up at a Philadelphia ballot counting location with guns has been spotted in footage of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

    NBC News cited the FBI affidavit saying Antonio LaMotta was arrested in Chesapeake, Virginia on Tuesday and charged with four misdemeanor statutes: "entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading in a Capitol building."

    LaMotta went to the Philadelphia Convention center in Nov. 2020, driving a silver Hummer with a QAnon sticker on the back. He and friend Joshua Macias were carrying weapons and the car was filled with ammunition. It wasn't until Oct. 2021, however, that HuffPost reported that LaMotta was also the man spotted on Capitol surveillance footage on Jan. 6........

     
    A Pennsylvania woman accused of stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop during the Capitol riot with the intent of selling it to Russia wants out of her house arrest so she can attend a renaissance fair, according to court documents.

    Riley Williams, of Mechanicsburg, made a request to a federal court to allow her to visit the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in Manheim this weekend, according to The Patriot-News, a Pennsylvania newspaper.

    The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is a longstanding event where hundreds of people dress up as figures from the 16th century and visitors can buy wares and food presented in the theme of the time period.

    Williams was charged with trespassing as well as violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, both of which are misdemeanors.

    Other charges presented against Williams include theft of government property and obstruction of an official proceeding, which carry possible sentences of 20 years in jail......




     
    Prosecutors want a Marine Corps veteran and former NYPD officer who tackled and choked a DC Police officer during the Capitol riot to serve more than 17 years in prison, arguing the sentence was warranted for “disgracing” the democracy that he once fought to protect and serve.

    The 210-month sentence the Justice Department is seeking for Thomas Webster, of New York, would be by far the longest handed down in any Jan. 6 case to date. Prosecutors sought more than 15 years in prison for Texas Three Percenter Guy Reffitt for being at the front of a mob that overwhelmed police, although he was ultimately ordered to serve 87 months behind bars. Another defendant and former police officer, Thomas Robertson, of Virginia, was also sentenced to 87 months in prison earlier this month.

    Webster was convicted by a jury in May of six counts, five of them felonies. During trial, prosecutors showed video of Webster “elbowing” his way through the massed crowd on Jan. 6 to where DC and U.S. Capitol Police officers were holding a perimeter behind a line of bike racks. Body cam video showed him immediately screaming at one of those officers, D.C. Police Officer Noah Rathbun, before initiating what prosecutors described as a “rage-filled” assault within seconds of arriving at the police line.

    Video showed Webster repeatedly swinging a metal pole with a Marine Corps flag attached at Rathbun and another officer before charging through the barricade and tackling Rathbun to the ground, where he attempted to rip off his gas mask and helmet. Rathbun testified that Webster’s attack choked him and left him gasping for air as he felt other rioters kicking him while on the ground............

     
    Five DC Police officers testified Tuesday about the extreme violence they faced at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, including during an hours-long assault by rioters inside the Lower West Terrace Tunnel.

    All five officers said they began the day elsewhere, including some on assigned to CDUs (civil disturbance units), but responded to the Capitol after a radio call for assistance was put out by DC Police Commander Ramey Kyle as supporters of former President Donald Trump began to attack and then overwhelm police at the building.

    When they arrived, the officers said, they encountered a “hostile” and “extremely violent” crowd that attempted to stop them from getting to the front lines and, in several cases, either attempted to or successfully robbed them of pieces of their riot gear, including batons and radios.

    DC Police Officer Chad Curtice said of the 32 members of his squad who responded to the Capitol, only four made it through the crowd together to the police line. Once there, Curtice’s bodyworn camera showed rioters provoking, insulting and threatening police.

    “Do you know what happens to traitors?” one rioter – identified in court filings as then-25-year-old Tristan Chandler Stevens, of Pensacola, Florida – yelled. “They get tied to a post and shot. Are you ready for that?”

    Another rioter could be heard in bodyworn camera footage yelling, “Take off your weapons. Take off your badges. Take off your helmets and show solidarity with We the People or we’re going to run over you!”.......


     
    A lawyer for the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has been charged with conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, authorities said Thursday.

    Kellye SoRelle — general counsel for the antigovernment group — was arrested in Texas on charges including conspiracy to obstruct the certification of President Joe Biden's electoral college victory, the Justice Department said.

    SoRelle, 43, is a close associate of Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers' leader who is heading to trial later this month alongside other extremists on seditious conspiracy charges.

    After Rhodes' arrest in January, SoRelle told media outlets she was acting as the president of the Oath Keepers while he's behind bars.

    Prosecutors have accused Rhodes and his militia group of plotting for weeks to stop the transfer of power and keep former President Donald Trump in office, purchasing weapons, organizing military-style trainings and setting up battle plans.

    SoRelle told The Associated Press last year — when FBI agents seized her phone as part of the Jan 6. investigation — that she had no knowledge of or involvement in the Capitol breach. She called the seizure of her phone “unethical” and the investigation “a witch hunt.”............

     

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