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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

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    ELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana appliance store owner and supporter of former President Donald Trump was convicted Wednesday for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol that interrupted certifying the 2020 Electoral College vote.

    The U.S. Attorney's Office in Montana announced the verdict.

    Henry Phillip Muntzer of Dillon was arrested based on social media posts and videos taken inside the Capitol, according to court records.

    Muntzer, 55, was found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding and civil disorder, both felonies, following a bench trial before U.S. District Court Judge Jia M. Cobb. Muntzer was also found guilty of four misdemeanor charges. Sentencing is set for June 20.

    Prosecutors presented evidence that Muntzer and a group of friends traveled to Washington to attend the “Stop the Steal" rally. After Trump's speech at the Ellipse, Muntzer joined the crowd walking to the Capitol, where he spent about 38 minutes, including time on the Senate floor. He was among the last people to leave, according to court records.

    Muntzer was involved in physical confrontations with law enforcement officers in the Senate chamber and in the Capitol Rotunda, prosecutors said...........

     
    The federal court in Washington, D.C. has been pushing back against conspiracy theories that are still circulating about Jan. 6.

    Judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia are confronting claims by Jan. 6 defendants and their supporters and are being more outspoken when it comes to countering the claims, which include the labeling of Jan. 6 defendants as "hostages," or claims that the Capitol riot was sparked by government informants.

    One of those judges is Royce Lamberth, who declared during a sentencing hearing for a Jan. 6 defendant that the court "is accustomed to defendants who refuse to accept that they did anything wrong."

    "But in my 37 years on the bench, I cannot recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream," Lamberth said.

    "I have been dismayed to see outright distortions and outright falsehoods creep into the public consciousness," Lamberth continued. "I have been shocked to watch some public figures try to rewrite history, claiming rioters behaved in an orderly fashion like ordinary tourists, or martyrizing convicted Jan. 6 defendants as political prisoners or even, incredibly, hostages. That is all preposterous."

    At another sentencing hearing last month, Judge Ana Reyes slammed rioters who compared themselves to America's Founding Fathers.

    "I feel the need to give everyone a certain history lesson. Because there are people who believe and continue to believe that the election was stolen and that it is in the best tradition of our American Founding Fathers to rebel against tyranny," she said.

    "I suggest that you read President Washington's farewell address. Because in it he warned Americans to 'guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.' And he warned, 'There will always be reasons to distrust the patriotism who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken the bonds of our democratic experiment,'" Reyes continued............

     
    .........Sparks’ identity was first made known to police a day after the Capitol assault. An individual called the FBI’s National Threat Operation Center and identified him as the first rioter inside. On Jan. 8, 2021, the tipster was interviewed and disclosed that she had heard Sparks discuss plans to travel to Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally.

    “This time we’re going to shut it down,” Sparks had said, according to the woman.

    A few days later, as police began poring over the footage of the first rioters to breach, and in particular, footage of those rioters who chased Goodman through the building, prosecutors said they saw and heard Sparks on recordings telling officers to leave their posts and pointing his finger in their faces.

    A second and then a third tipster also reported Sparks to the FBI when in the days after Jan. 6 he took to Facebook to post pro-Trump messages.

    “A new dawn is coming. Be ready. Just pray and trust in the Lord,” he wrote.

    In another Facebook post, Sparks added: “TRUMP WILL BE YOUR PRESIDENT 4 more years in JESUS NAME. No need to reply to this just be ready for a lot of big events. Have radios for power loss etc. Love every body.”

    He was arrested on Jan. 19, 2021 and pleaded not guilty to all charges.

    At his criminal trial this month, jurors heard about Sparks’ steady obsession with Trump’s bogus claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, NBC reported. By the time now-President Joe Biden was declared the victor in November, Sparks was online crowing about the former president and chatting on Parler about reports of fraud.

    He also came to Washington, D.C., ahead of Jan. 6. He was in town for the Dec. 12, 2020, “Stop the Steal” rally that turned violent that night as Proud Boys and counterprotesters clashed in the street. Sparks reportedly only recorded and watched a speech from Trump ally and “MyPillow Guy” Mike Lindell.


    As the weeks flicked past, Sparks was increasingly active on social media, posting missives about voter “fraud” and encouraging others through his own fierce rhetoric to reject the results.

    On Jan. 1, 2021, Sparks started openly declaring the need for violent conflict.

    “Yes we want a civil war to be clear,” he wrote on Parler, NBC reported.

    Sparks was ready to die for Trump as well. At least, that’s what he proclaimed on his Facebook account: “The votes were stolen. You will have time to fight for what you believe in, As for me I believe in the constitution so I’ll die fir it. Trump is my president.”

    Sparks defense attorney Scott Wendelsdorf conceded that his client was guilty of misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct but at trial, the lawyer maintained that Sparks had merely been overzealous and ultimately led astray on Jan. 6.

    He was being blamed for violence he didn’t commit and he left the Capitol once he realized that the rioters weren’t going to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn Trump’s defeat.

    “Sparks may have started the game, according to the government, but he was out of the game on the sidelines before the first quarter was over,” Wendelsdorf told the jury, the AP reported.

    Prosecutors, however, rebuffed this as naive, noting how three days before the Capitol attack, he boasted on Facebook about how it was “time to drag” lawmakers out of Congress “by there face.” He boasted about his plans for violence to his friends in text messages.

    Sparks had also come to Washington, D.C., with a friend and co-worker, Joseph Howe, and together, donning tactical gear, the men attended Trump’s rally before they hauled off toward the Capitol to stop lawmakers from certifying the election.

    Howe, according to the Justice Department, was sentenced in October on two felony counts after he struck a plea deal in August 2023 to obstructing an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers. He was seen in footage roving through the Capitol, grabbing a fire extinguisher and then spraying it at police directly in their faces.

    Sparks will be sentenced July 9 before U.S. District Judge Tim Kelly, a Trump appointee..............

    lawandcrime.com

    'We want a civil war to be clear': First Jan. 6 defendant to breach the Capitol found guilty

    After a week long trial. the very first rioter to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Kentucky resident Michael Sparks, was found guilty on six counts including obstruction of an official proceeding.
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    WASHINGTON — A federal judge has, for a second time, postponed sentencing for a former Columbus resident who has pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

    Sentencing for former heavy metal musician and Columbus resident Jon Schaffer had been scheduled for April 5, but U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta recently pushed back the hearing until July 19, according to filings in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

    The decision comes after Schaffer had asked the court to delay sentencing until September following a decision earlier this month by a federal appeals court to overturn a sentencing enhancement used to help determine another Jan. 6 defendant’s punishment.

    It also comes after the Supreme Court decided it would weigh in on the scope of the felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding — one of two charges that Schaffer pleaded guilty to in April 2021.

    Last month, Mehta had denied a request to delay sentencing until after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision but postponed the sentencing hearing from Feb. 20 on medical grounds. The former Oath Keeper and former member of the heavy metal band Iced Earth previously told the judge that he might undergo an undisclosed medical procedure “with the need for a recovery afterwards.”


    Though Schaffer had asked to delay sentencing for several months, Mehta said Schaffer “has not demonstrated good cause to continue sentencing of this matter for six months or more,” according to the order.

    “The court, however, will continue sentencing after the Supreme Court issues its decision,” Mehta states in the order.

    In December, the Supreme Court said it would hear an appeal challenging the scope of the obstruction of an official proceeding charge that has been brought against more than 300 people, including Schaffer and former President Donald Trump, The Associated Press reported. The charge, which carries up to 20 years behind bars, refers to the disruption of Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory over Trump.

    It is one of two charges that Schaffer pleaded guilty to. He also pleaded guilty to one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or ground with a deadly or dangerous weapon.

    The case that the Supreme Court will hear involves Joseph Fischer, a former Pennsylvania police officer, who is facing a seven-count indictment for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, including the obstruction charge, and two other defendants, according to wire reports..............

    Judge delays Schaffer’s sentencing until July - The Republic News

    WASHINGTON — A federal judge has, for a second time, postponed sentencing for a former Columbus resident who has pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
    www.therepublic.com www.therepublic.com
     
    Authorities were able to track down and arrest a January 6 rioter who posed for pictures with Roger Stone thanks to the man’s fashion-forward attire.

    Tristan Sartor, a 26-year-old Pennsylvaniadesigner, was charged with felony counts of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and disorderly conduct, in addition to a misdemeanor charge or parading, demonstrating or picketing and disorderly conduct.

    Before being taken into custody in Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania on July 31, Sartor posted selfies with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and Stone, according to Law & Crime.


    FBI agents identified Sartor by matching CCTV images of him to photos he’d posted on Instagram. Specifically, agents identified that Sartor had been wearing the same shoes, a lapel pin and sunglasses on the day of the riot that he’d posed with in photos on the app.……

    www.independent.co.uk

    Designer arrested in January 6 attack thanks to his fashion choices

    FBI investigators matched CCTV images of the man wearing a lapel pin and sunglasses to his Instagram photos
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Authorities were able to track down and arrest a January 6 rioter who posed for pictures with Roger Stone thanks to the man’s fashion-forward attire.

    Tristan Sartor, a 26-year-old Pennsylvaniadesigner, was charged with felony counts of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and disorderly conduct, in addition to a misdemeanor charge or parading, demonstrating or picketing and disorderly conduct.

    Before being taken into custody in Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania on July 31, Sartor posted selfies with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and Stone, according to Law & Crime.


    FBI agents identified Sartor by matching CCTV images of him to photos he’d posted on Instagram. Specifically, agents identified that Sartor had been wearing the same shoes, a lapel pin and sunglasses on the day of the riot that he’d posed with in photos on the app.……

    www.independent.co.uk

    Designer arrested in January 6 attack thanks to his fashion choices

    FBI investigators matched CCTV images of the man wearing a lapel pin and sunglasses to his Instagram photos
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    Reminds me of the James Bond movie with Roger Moore, when he comes to the south, and thinks he’s going to blend right in. Yeah, they’ll never recognize him in the double plaid tweed suit with the oxford shoes and the lapel pin. #Lol.
     
    A self-published memoir on Amazon helped police catch a man who allegedly participated in the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

    Marine Corps veteran Nathan Thornsberry, 42, of North Branch, Michigan, was arrested on Thursday on felony charges of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers.

    Police found out about Thornsberry, who allegedly used his body to ram a police barrier separating the rioters from the Capitol, after the Flint, Michigan, FBI office got a tip he was behind a self-published book on Amazon about the insurrection.


    The memoir, January 6: A Patriot’s Story, was published under a different name, Nathaniel Matthews, but police allege that it is Thornsberry who wrote it.

    The biographical details in the about the author section match Thornsberry’s, they said, and a subpoena of Amazon records showed the account as registered under the name Nathan Thornsberry, with a phone number associated with a Facebook account of the same name.…….

    www.independent.co.uk

    Veteran self-publishes book on his experience at Jan. 6 riot — and gets arrested

    Marine Corps veteran Nathan Thornsberry’s book describes itself as an ‘eyewitness account of the events of January 6th, 2021’
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland police officer was convicted on Friday of charges that he joined a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and hurled a smoke bomb and other objects at police officers guarding a tunnel entrance.

    U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden heard two days of trial testimony without a jury this week before he found Montgomery County Police Officer Justin Lee guilty of two felonies and three misdemeanors. The judge, who also acquitted Lee of two other misdemeanors, is scheduled to sentence him on Nov. 22.

    Lee, 26, ignited and threw a smoke bomb into the tunnel entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, where a mob of rioters attacked a group of outnumbered police officers. The device struck a police officer’s riot shield and filled the mouth of the tunnel with a large plume of smoke, prosecutors said.

    “No police officer should have to endure these attacks and provocations,” McFadden said.……

    apnews.com

    Maryland police officer convicted of tossing smoke bomb at police during Capitol riot

    A Maryland police officer has been convicted of charges that he joined a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
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    WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York police officer told a jury that he was acting in self-defense when he tackled a police officer and grabbed his gas mask during the Jan. 6 riot.

    Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before convicting the 20-year NYPD veteran, Thomas Webster, of all six counts in his indictment.

    Webster was the first Jan. 6 defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a jury with a self-defense argument. His conviction proved to be a bellwether for the dozens of trials that followed.

    Finding a viable trial defense hasn't been easy for rioters who stormed the Capitol. Of the nearly 100 riot defendants who have elected to a trial by jury, none has been fully acquitted.

    Many have said they were swept up in the moment. Some have tried to shift the blame for their actions to former President Donald Trump and his lies about a stolen election. Others have claimed they were trying to protect themselves from overzealous police officers.

    In Webster's case, prosecutors repeatedly showed frame-by-frame footage of him assaulting a Metropolitan Police Department officer with a metal flagpole, tackling him to the ground and trying to rip off his gas mask.

    Webster testified he was trying to protect himself from a “rogue cop” who punched him in the face. A juror who spoke to reporters after the May 2022 verdict said the videos refuted Webster’s self-defense claims.

    “I guess we were all surprised that he would even make that defense argument,” the juror said. “There was no dissension among us at all. We unanimously agreed that there was no self-defense argument here at all.”

    Before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced him to 10 years in prison, Webster apologized to the officer. He said he wished he had never come to Washington, where he says he “became swept up in politics and former President Trump’s rhetoric.”.............


     
    Two brothers were arrested on Thursday on charges that they assaulted a New York Times photographer inside the US Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building more than three years ago.

    David Walker, 49, of Delran, New Jersey, and Philip Walker, 52, of Upper Chichester, Pennsylvania, also are charged with stealing a camera from the photographer during the 6 January 2021 attack.

    Philip Walker told investigators that he tossed a camera into a body of water on his way home from Washington DC, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit.


    Court records don’t name the photographer or identify her employer, but New York Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha confirmed that the affidavit refers to staff photographer Erin Schaff, who wrote about her experience at the Capitol.

    “We are grateful to the US attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the FBI for their persistence in pursuing justice in this case,” Rhodes Ha said in a statement. “Independent, fact-based journalism is a cornerstone of democracy and attacks against reporters should be a grave concern to anyone who cares about an informed citizenry.”

    Philip Walker told the FBI that he believed the photographer was a member of “antifa”, a term for anti-fascist activists who often clash with far-right extremists at political protests.…….

    www.theguardian.com

    Two brothers arrested for allegedly assaulting photographer on January 6

    David and Philip Walker also reportedly stole and threw New York Times photographer’s camera into body of water
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in Hawaii on charges that he repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago, according to court records unsealed on Wednesday.

    Alexander Cain Poplin was arrested on Tuesday at Schofield Barracks, an Army installation near Honolulu. Poplin, 31, of Wahiawa, Hawaii, was scheduled to make his initial appearance in federal court on Wednesday.

    The FBI received a tip in February 2021 that Poplin had posted on Facebook about attacking police during the Capitol riot. Poplin wrote that “we took our house back” and “stood for something,” according to an FBI task force officer’s affidavit.

    In July 2024, the FBI investigator interviewed Poplin’s military supervisor, who identified him in a photograph showing him wearing an Army camouflage backpack inside the restricted area of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.…..

    apnews.com

    Army soldier charged with assaulting police officer with a flagpole during Capitol riot

    A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in Hawaii on charges that he repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole during a mob’s attack on the U.S.
    apnews.com apnews.com

     
    A Jan. 6 rioter who was convicted of assaulting police with a deadly weapon was sentenced to spend his weekends in jail for the next year, one of the lightest penalties yet imposed on a rioter convicted of attacking law enforcement.


    Paul Russell Johnson, 38, of Lanexa, Va., was one of five men who grabbed the bicycle racks being used as barricades by U.S. Capitol Police, lifted them into the air and smashed them into several officers, clearing a path from the Peace Circle to the Capitol for the thousands of Donald Trump supporters marching from the Ellipsis.

    The five men didn’t know one another, but they went on trial together before U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb in October and November, with Cobb convicting them of civil disorder and assault with a deadly weapon — the bike racks.


    Video showed that Johnson used a megaphone to recruit men to join him in attacking the police. After lifting the bike racks, Johnson encouraged the crowd to head for the Capitol, where he and his co-defendants traveled, some creating more havoc than others.

    Federal sentencing guidelines called for a minimum sentence of five years for Johnson, and prosecutors asked Cobb to give him a nine-year term.

    But Johnson’s wife suffers from an undisclosed illness and they have three children, which Cobb noted as she diverged from the sentencing guidelines and told Johnson he could report to jail at 5 p.m. on Saturdays and leave on Monday mornings.

    After the first year, Cobb ordered Johnson to spend two years on home confinement, all as part of a five-year probation sentence.

    Cobb then sentenced the next defendant, Steven C. Randolph, 35, of Harrodsburg, Ky., to eight years in prison, one of the stiffest sentences given to any Jan. 6 defendant for assaulting an officer.

    Cobb said that Randolph picked up the bike rack and pushed it toward Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered head injuries and lasting migraines. “She could’ve been killed,” the judge said.

    Then, while Edwards was on the ground, Randolph attacked another officer, video showed……..

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