Capitol Riot arrests (4 Viewers)

[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

 

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Former California police chief Alan Hostetterwent on a conspiratorial rant moments before a federal judge sentenced him to more than 11 years in prison for conspiring to bring weapons to the US Capitol during the January 6 riot.

The 58-year-old, who represented himself at trial, told the court on Thursday that the January 6 insurrection was an "obvious set up” that was faked by “crisis actors,” and claimed that Ashli Babbitt, a rioter killed by a police officer at the Capitol, was actually still alive.

The former chief of the La Habra Police Department was convicted in July on four felony counts, including conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and carrying a dangerous or deadly weapon onto Capitol grounds.


Hostetter joined the Capitol riot with a hatchet in his backpack, and incited others to violence with a bullhorn on January 6, according to prosecutors. He was not accused of entering the Capitol building itself.……

Ex-police chief charged in Jan 6 riot spouts conspiracies as he’s jailed for 11 years

Former police chief incited mob on January 6, according to officials

www.the-independent.com

He actually needs an intervention. Oh,well.

 

[Taurus]

He actually needs an intervention. Oh,well.

T&P

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

so it was fake and a set up, so am i too assume he wasn't really there and the govt just had a look a like of him? smh

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested an “internet pornography personality” who is accused of participating in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Agents arrested Paul Caloia, who goes by the screen name “God Hypnotic,” last week. The FBI first identified Caloia as a suspect just days after the Capitol riot, when they received a witness tip that he was “bragging” on Skype about participating in the riot, according to an affidavit.

The witness said the individual using the screenname “God Hypnotic” later backtracked and said he was at the Capitol “for reporting purposes” on 6 January 2021, per the affidavit.

“Witness 1 further stated that as God Hypnotic was bragging about his involvement in the January 6 riots, another individual in the chat asked God Hypnotic why he went to the Capitol. At that point, Witness 1 said that God Hypnotic backtracked and said he went to the Capitol for reporting purposes,” the FBI affidavit stated.

The agent who submitted the affidavit also said they had obtained a video believed to have been filmed by Mr Caloia inside the US Capitol.

“They came in with like, guns and s***, like ARs, and they have us face down on the ground,” he said in that video, according to the FBI.

The FBI also says the obtained video of Mr Caloia entering the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 through a broken window, the affidavit states.……

‘Internet pornography personality’ arrested over Capitol riot

The FBI said witness reported ‘God Hypnotic’ bragging about participating in the January 6 insurrection

www.the-independent.com

 

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A handpicked lieutenant to Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 4o months of incarceration and will be released soon from prison after cooperating with federal prosecutors against co-conspirators convicted of plotting to keep Donald Trump in office through violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Charles Donohoe, 35, a Proud Boys organizer from Kernersville, N.C., did not testify at the trial of Tarrio and others found guilty of seditious conspiracy earlier this year, but he was originally indicted with them and charged with plotting to stop Congress’s certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory.


Donohoe is the first key cooperator from the group to face sentencing. Prosecutor Jason McCullough urged U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly to “send an important message” to deter future criminal conspiracies to commit political violence, and to encourage plotters to abandon and expose such plans to authorities……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/19/proud-boy-donohoe-sentence/

 

[Optimus Prime]

Washington — A member of the far-right Proud Boys group who was convicted on charges that included assaulting police during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and later cut off his ankle monitor in an attempt to flee from law enforcement was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday.

Christopher Worrell, of Florida, was convicted of seven counts at a bench trial last year after prosecutors alleged he sprayed law enforcement officers during the attack as they defended the north side of the Capitol against a large group of rioters.

In August, Worrell failed to appear at his sentencing hearing in Washington, D.C., and Judge Royce Lamberth, who sentenced him Thursday, issued a bench warrant for his arrest. The FBI issued an alert asking for assistance in finding Worrell, and he was ultimately taken into custody weeks later as he tried to return to his home.

Court documents filed after Worrell's arrest revealed his disappearance triggered an FBI manhunt. After law enforcement located him at his home, he allegedly "pretended" he had suffered a drug overdose in order to delay his capture.

Prosecutors said in court documents that the FBI entered Worrell's home on Sept. 28 after staking out his residence.

"Inside, they found Worrell, seemingly unresponsive, with an opened bottle of opioid prescription medication in his hand," prosecutors said in court documents. They performed what they thought were lifesaving procedures and transported Worrell to the hospital. The government later learned this was all a ruse on Worrell's part. Prosecutors say he had pretended to have a medical emergency as a delay tactic to stall the government's investigation...........

MSN

 

[fooferdoggie]

Washington — A member of the far-right Proud Boys group who was convicted on charges that included assaulting police during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and later cut off his ankle monitor in an attempt to flee from law enforcement was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday.

looks like trump found himself the top guy to run most offices.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Jacob Chansley, better known as the “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the Capitol on January 6, is now asking for the government to return his signature horned headdress.

“They’re keeping it like it’s evidence,” Chansley told The Daily Beast. “The case is over, so there’s no reason for them to continue holding onto it.”

“It’s rather upsetting that they’re not doing what the government is supposed to do and returning the property,” said Chansley, who has been well-acquainted with the government as of late.

Chansley pleaded guilty to a charge of obstructing a federal proceeding in connection to the Capitol attack, resulting in a 41-month prison sentence in November 2021. But after showing good behaviour, he was transferred to a halfway house in Arizona, meaning he only ended up serving 27 months in prison.

The former fur-covered insurrectionist told the outlet that he had purchased the headdress long before deciding to storm the Capitol: “Dude, I’ve been dressing that way for over 10 years.”

In his sentencing memorandum, Mr Chansley’s then-lawyer described “the images” of his client as becoming “inextricably linked to” the events of the Capitol riot: “they have become to January 6 what the Swoosh is to Nike.”

The former rioter told the outlet that the FBI took the signature headpiece when he turned himself in days after the riot: “I had it with me in the car…They just took it.”

He added, “They gave my mom the car back shortly after the investigation was over, but they refused to give me my headdress and my staff and my phone and my pants,” he said. “So what’s up with that?”..............

‘QAnon Shaman’ wants the FBI to return his infamous horned helmet

If he gets the headpiece back, he is debating wearing it as he campaigns as a Congressional candidate

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Montana fire chief who lost a previous job over a coronavirus vaccine mandate has been charged with spraying a chemical irritant on police officers during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Prosecutors say that Frank Dahlquist sprayed “an orange-colored chemical agent” directly into the face of one officer and later sprayed a second officer as supporters of former president Donald Trump attacked the Capitol building in Washington D.C., according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.

He was identified in part by matching his distinctive facial hair with a photo from the riot to a TV news story about firefighters who were terminated from a fire department near Seattle in April 2022 after the agency required a COVID-19 vaccination, court documents state.

Later that year, Dahlquist was named chief of West Valley Fire Rescue, near Helena, Montana.

No lawyer was listed for Dahlquist in court records, and he did not immediately respond to phone and email messages seeking comment. The Associated Press also left messages with the fire department.

Dahlquist was charged with assault, obstruction of law enforcement and other counts. The case was first reported by the online publication Court Watch.

He is also accused of throwing a piece of lumber toward a line of police officers, though it fell short of the officers and did not come close to hitting them, prosecutors said. FBI agents confirmed his identity by talking to firefighters who had worked with him in in Issaquah, Washington and identified him from video and photos taken on Jan. 6. They also provided his cellphone number, which was traced to the restricted area of the Capitol that day.

Investigators also found text messages he sent from that number to someone else convicted in the riot, saying “It was a great day!! It got spicy but I love the taste of Freedom.”..........

Montana fire chief who had refused vaccine mandate in Washington state charged in Jan. 6 riot

A Montana fire chief who lost a previous job over a coronavirus vaccine mandate has been charged with spraying a chemical irritant on police officers during the riot at the U.S.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

A top Maryland elections official was arrested this week on multiple charges alleging he participated in the U.S. Capitol attack and encouraged officers trying to disperse rioters to “join us.”

Federal investigators allege Carlos Ayala, 52, scaled a police barricade on Jan. 6, 2021 while carrying a black flag that said “We the People,” before pacing a line of police gathered to quell the riot.

An criminal complaint unsealed after Ayala’s arrest on Tuesday said the flag, which also said “DEFEND” and depicted an M-16-style rifle, was seen on video footage being hosted through a window where U.S. Capitol Police had erected a makeshift-barricade to keep out rioters who had already breached the building. That barricade was ultimately breached again as supporters of former president Donald Trump disrupted the confirmation of the 2020 election underway.

Two officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing confirmed that the man charged is the same Ayala on the elections board. A third confirmed he is a former executive at Eastern Shore chicken-giant Perdue Farms. Two officials said he resigned from his post on the elections board.

A little more than two years after the insurrection, the Maryland Senate unanimously confirmed Ayala in March 2023 as one of the Maryland Republican Party’s two representatives on to the five-member Board of Elections that oversees nearly all functions for elections. Secretaries of state hold those powers in many other states...........

MSN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/11/january-6-maryland-elections-official/

 

[Optimus Prime]

AProud Boy member, who also served as a Miami-Dade County Republican Executive Committee member, was sentenced to four years in prison for taking part in the Capitol riot back on Jan. 6, 2021.

“You were part of a 100-man-strong fighting force that circled the Capitol,” U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said on Thursday while imposing the sentence against Gilbert Fonticoba,

Fonticoba, who is a single father said to look after the well-being of his elderly mother, tried to secure a softer prison sentence of five months.

His defense tried to argue for leniency for Fonticoba, who is purportedly undertaking a "long process of de-radicalization" from political extremism.

Federal prosecutors say that Fonticoba was a member of the Vice City chapter of the Proud Boys, founded in Miami, since 2019, and "participated in a coordinated effort to obstruct the certification of the Electoral College on Jan. 6, 2021" according to their release...........

MSN

 

[Optimus Prime]

A man who stormed the US Capitol with fellow Proud Boys far-right extremist group members was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison after he berated and insulted the judge who punished him.

Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted chief judge James Boasberg before the sentence was handed down, calling him a “clown” and a “fraud” presiding over a “kangaroo court”.

The judge warned Bru that he could be kicked out of the courtroom if he continued to disrupt the proceedings.


“You can give me 100 years and I’d do it all over again,” said Bru, who was handcuffed and shackled.

“That’s the definition of no remorse in my book,” the judge said.

Prosecutors described Bru as one of the least remorseful rioters who assaulted the Capitol on 6 January 2021 when extremist supporters of Donald Trump, encouraged by the then outgoing US president broke into the Capitol to try to stop the certification by a joint session of Congress of Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential election.…..

Proud Boys member gets six years in prison for Capitol riot after insulting judge

Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted chief judge before the sentence was handed down, calling him a ‘clown’ and a ‘fraud’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

James Little successfully argued that his punishment for joining the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol was illegal. His reward: 60 more days behind bars.

In a scathing statement from the bench, Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Thursday that he was worried about “further danger to our country” because of Little and others’ “shameless attempts ... to misinterpret or misrepresent what happened” on Jan. 6, 2021. While his audience was Little, a 53-year-old North Carolina truck driver, the judge also alluded to comments made by Republican lawmakers, including what he called a “preposterous” statement from Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) calling Jan. 6 defendants “hostages.”

“I have been shocked to watch some public figures try to rewrite history,” Lamberth said. “It’s up to the court to tell the truth. I hope a little truth will go a long way.”

Little was first sentenced by Lamberth in early 2022 to 60 days in prison and three years of probation after pleading guilty to illegally parading at the Capitol. But Little’s public defenders argued prison time and probation can’t be combined for a single “petty” misdemeanor charge. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed.

When the ruling came down in August, Little had already served his time behind bars and about half his probation, so he asked to be set loose. Instead, Lamberth sentenced him anew to two more months in prison, saying Little had shown no remorse or respect for the criminal justice system since the riot.

“This is a matter of right versus wrong,” Lamberth said. “Mr. Little cannot bring himself to admit he did the wrong thing.” Little, appearing by video from his home in Claremont, N.C., shook his head and rolled his eyes as the judge spoke, occasionally muttering to himself...........

MSN

www.msn.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/25/jan-6-sentence-misdemeanor/

 

[DaveXA]

James Little successfully argued that his punishment for joining the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol was illegal. His reward: 60 more days behind bars.

In a scathing statement from the bench, Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Thursday that he was worried about “further danger to our country” because of Little and others’ “shameless attempts ... to misinterpret or misrepresent what happened” on Jan. 6, 2021. While his audience was Little, a 53-year-old North Carolina truck driver, the judge also alluded to comments made by Republican lawmakers, including what he called a “preposterous” statement from Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) calling Jan. 6 defendants “hostages.”

“I have been shocked to watch some public figures try to rewrite history,” Lamberth said. “It’s up to the court to tell the truth. I hope a little truth will go a long way.”

Little was first sentenced by Lamberth in early 2022 to 60 days in prison and three years of probation after pleading guilty to illegally parading at the Capitol. But Little’s public defenders argued prison time and probation can’t be combined for a single “petty” misdemeanor charge. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed.

When the ruling came down in August, Little had already served his time behind bars and about half his probation, so he asked to be set loose. Instead, Lamberth sentenced him anew to two more months in prison, saying Little had shown no remorse or respect for the criminal justice system since the riot.

“This is a matter of right versus wrong,” Lamberth said. “Mr. Little cannot bring himself to admit he did the wrong thing.” Little, appearing by video from his home in Claremont, N.C., shook his head and rolled his eyes as the judge spoke, occasionally muttering to himself...........

MSN

www.msn.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/25/jan-6-sentence-misdemeanor/

In another time and age, these idiots, including Trump, would have been put to death for treason. A few years in a minimum security prison is nothing.

 

[Optimus Prime]

WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who "blind-side tackled" a U.S. Capitol Police officer from behind on Jan. 6 and flipped him over a ledge was sentenced to more than six years in prison Tuesday.

Ralph Celentano, a New York man who thought Trump was the greatest president in American history, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said that Celentano's conduct was "disgraceful" and that there was no excuse for it, calling the attack on the officer "a truly cowardly and despicable thing to do."

Celentano was arrested in 2022 and convicted at trial last year. Court evidence shows that he believed Trump's lies about the 2020 election, writing on social media that "crooked poll workers need to be hauled before judges" before heading to the "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington on Jan. 6, and then heading to the Capitol.

“While admittedly ‘amped up’ from the rally, Celentano marched over a mile to the Capitol Building gripping his Trump flag, folding chairs strapped to his backpack, which bore a patch that read, ‘Kill Them All and Let God Sort it Out,’” prosecutors wrote.

At Peace Circle, Celentano said in a video that rioters should "occupy the Capitol, it's our building," and then joined the mob confronting officers, calling them "pathetic pieces of s---," prosecutors said. Celentano then pushed officers and used their riot shields against them.

Eventually, Celentano shoved U.S. Capitol Police Officer Kenrick Ellis over a banister. Ellis, who served in the military in Iraq, testified that he thought during the fighting outside the Capitol that was how it “was going to end” for him and that he feared he would never see his 5-year-old son again.

Ellis spoke during the sentencing hearing, saying that Celentano “football tackled” him from behind and that he had no opportunity to defend himself.

“I believed that was how my life was going to end that day,” Ellis said.

“You’re not a patriot,” Ellis told Celentano. “You’re a coward.”

Celentano offered a brief apology to Ellis.

"I'm terribly sorry," he said. "Terrible day."

After the riot, Celentano pushed back against conspiracy theories about the attack, saying Trump supporters were, in fact, responsible.

"Nope antifa and Blm didnt take the Capitol we the people did," Celentano wrote on the defunct right-wing social media platform Parler...........

Jan. 6 rioter who 'blind-side tackled' Capitol officer is sentenced to more than 6 years in prison

After getting "amped up" at the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, Donald Trump fan Ralph Celentano assaulted law enforcement officers during the Capitol attack.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Federal prosecutors claim a Capitol rioter trying to delay his sentencing may be doing so because he enjoys being locked up.

Capitol rioter Brandon Fellows represented himself during his trial, and was ultimately convicted. He told jurors that the day of the riot was a "beautiful day" and that he was happy that lawmakers feared for their lives, NBC News reports.

“We had to take the election back. It was stolen,” he told the jurors. He also called the judge presiding over his case a Nazi.

He told jurors during the trial that he was autistic and had been at some point diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and ADHD.

After he was convicted, prosecutors announced they would seek to jail Fellows for 37 months, the maximum under the sentencing guidelines.

However, Fellows has requested to delay his sentencing by several months. If he were granted that request, he could possibly spend more time locked up than he was actually sentenced to serve.

In a filing on Thursday, prosecutors pushed back against his request, arguing that it "is not in the interest of justice" to grant the delay "but, given his statement during a hearing on 13 December, 2023, that he was in no rush to proceed to sentencing, remaining incarcerated may be the defendant's goal."

Fellows was one of a small group of Capitol riot defendants who was held in pre-trial detention even though he had not been charged with assaulting a police officer or conspiracy. He initially was released on bond but was sent back to detention after he violated the conditions of his release several times.............

Capitol rioter may be trying to delay sentencing ‘because he likes jail’

Brandon Fellows called federal incarceration ‘awesome and fun’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

They were five men from five different states who’d never met each other. But on Jan. 6, 2021, they found themselves together at the front of the angry push by rioters toward the U.S. Capitol.

And together, video showed, they lifted a line of five linked barriers and heaved them into a group of five Capitol Police officers with such force that one of the officers went airborne, striking her head and falling briefly unconscious.

The encounter at the Peace Circle, prosecutors said, cleared the first path for rioters to reach the Capitol, where Trump supporters on the west side of the building surged forward as the police retreated.

The five men continued to wreak havoc, fighting with officers or encouraging other rioters to push ahead, and on Friday a federal judge found all five guilty of assaulting law enforcement and convicted three of them for obstructing the confirmation of the 2020 presidential election.


“These are the defendants who started it,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexandra F. Foster said in her closing argument Nov. 2 to U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb, after the defendants chose a bench trial instead of a jury trial.

“There is little doubt that this moment ignited a fire that lasted around the Capitol for hours. … They started the Capitol breach. Now they must take responsibility.”


Defense lawyers argued that pinning responsibility on five men for a riot involving thousands of others was unfair. Ryan Samsel, 39, of Bristol, Pa., was the most prominent of the group, first unlatching the barricades at an unguarded spot on the Peace Circle, then leading the crowd toward a second line where he yelled at police and was part of the effort to launch the bike racks at the five officers, video played at trial showed.

He has been in jail since January 2021, in part because of multiple violent assault convictions in previous years, mostly against women, and a pending arrest warrant for violating a restraining order.

Samsel attorney Stanley Woodward said the five men didn’t launch the insurrection. “I think history, and only history, will tell us who started the riot on January 6,” Woodward said. “But we can’t, in good faith, submit that one person, or even five people, are culpable for the events that day.”

He noted that surveillance video showed that other rioters approached the Capitol from a different angle than those from the Peace Circle, but prosecutors maintained that the Peace Circle was the first breach of the restricted perimeter…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/02/jan-6-capitol-riot-samsel/

 

[MT15]

They were five men from five different states who’d never met each other. But on Jan. 6, 2021, they found themselves together at the front of the angry push by rioters toward the U.S. Capitol.

And together, video showed, they lifted a line of five linked barriers and heaved them into a group of five Capitol Police officers with such force that one of the officers went airborne, striking her head and falling briefly unconscious.

The encounter at the Peace Circle, prosecutors said, cleared the first path for rioters to reach the Capitol, where Trump supporters on the west side of the building surged forward as the police retreated.

The five men continued to wreak havoc, fighting with officers or encouraging other rioters to push ahead, and on Friday a federal judge found all five guilty of assaulting law enforcement and convicted three of them for obstructing the confirmation of the 2020 presidential election.


“These are the defendants who started it,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexandra F. Foster said in her closing argument Nov. 2 to U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb, after the defendants chose a bench trial instead of a jury trial.

“There is little doubt that this moment ignited a fire that lasted around the Capitol for hours. … They started the Capitol breach. Now they must take responsibility.”


Defense lawyers argued that pinning responsibility on five men for a riot involving thousands of others was unfair. Ryan Samsel, 39, of Bristol, Pa., was the most prominent of the group, first unlatching the barricades at an unguarded spot on the Peace Circle, then leading the crowd toward a second line where he yelled at police and was part of the effort to launch the bike racks at the five officers, video played at trial showed.

He has been in jail since January 2021, in part because of multiple violent assault convictions in previous years, mostly against women, and a pending arrest warrant for violating a restraining order.

Samsel attorney Stanley Woodward said the five men didn’t launch the insurrection. “I think history, and only history, will tell us who started the riot on January 6,” Woodward said. “But we can’t, in good faith, submit that one person, or even five people, are culpable for the events that day.”

He noted that surveillance video showed that other rioters approached the Capitol from a different angle than those from the Peace Circle, but prosecutors maintained that the Peace Circle was the first breach of the restricted perimeter…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/02/jan-6-capitol-riot-samsel/

They should get harsh sentences.