Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III

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Jan. 6 rioter who skipped earlier sentencing hearing gets 10-year term​

A member of the far-right Proud Boys group got a 10-year prison term Thursday for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The defendant, Christopher Worrell, missed his first scheduled sentencing hearing, in August, after he fled home detention and vanished for weeks, according to authorities, who said he later purposely took a drug overdose to further delay the proceedings.

She broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6. Now she’s running for school board in Missouri​

The last time Kimberly Dragoo of St. Joseph made major headlines was last summer when she and her husband pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing inside the U.S. Capitol as part of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Harrowing New Jan. 6 Video Shows GOP Rep. Troy Nehls in Tense Capitol Standoff​

In a gripping new video released by the Justice Department, U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) is caught in the midst of the January 6th Capitol insurrection, standing in the House chamber alongside a security guard aiming a pistol at rioters attempting to breach a door.

Maryland elections board member resigns after indictment for participating in US Capitol rioting​

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Republican member of the Maryland State Board of Elections has resigned after being arrested by the FBI this week on felony and misdemeanor charges for participating in rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Capitol rioter who assaulted at least 6 police officers sentenced to 5 years in prison​

Kenneth Bonawitz, a member of the far-right extremist Proud Boys group’s Miami chapter, assaulted at least six police officers as he stormed the Capitol with a mob of pro-Trump supporters.

FBI arrests L.A. actor and Republican Party official over alleged involvement in Jan. 6 riot​

Siaka Massaquoi, first vice chair of the L.A. County Republican Party, was arrested Thursday by FBI agents at Hollywood Burbank Airport, the agency confirmed. Massaquoi was reportedly returning with his wife from Nashville, where the couple attended the premiere of the Daily Wire’s new film “Lady Ballers,” a controversial comedy mocking transgender athletes, according to Red State, a conservative news media outlet for which Massaquoi is a columnist.

Proud Boys member sentenced to 6 years in prison for Capitol riot role after berating judge​

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

Chicago officer given 90 days home detention for entering Capitol on Jan. 6​

Karol Chwiesiuk and his sister avoided jail time because they left the Capitol without violence or vandalism​

Feds use Wayback Machine to identify alleged Jan. 6 rioter who led calls to arrest state officials for COVID-19 rules​

Jason Howland, the founder of an organization known for its protest of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, has been arrested and charged with five counts including obstructing proceedings inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

 

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‘Preposterous’: Federal judge decries efforts to downplay Jan. 6 violence, label perpetrators ‘hostages’​

Judge Royce Lamberth, who has handled dozens of Jan. 6 cases, lamented the false rhetoric spread by Donald Trump and his allies.

How the GOP’s rewriting of Jan. 6 paved the way for Trump’s comeback​

Pressure from family members and advocates for accused rioters was amplified by online influencers and right-wing media figures, leading lawmakers to minimize, excuse and deny the violence and rehabilitate Trump​

Elise Stefanik echoes Trump when asked about January 6 prisoners three years on​

GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik on Sunday echoed Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump as she referred to those sentenced to prison for their roles in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol as “hostages.

Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney blasted Stefanik for calling those imprisoned for their actions during January 6 “hostages,” referring to the term as “disgraceful.”

“That word she used is exactly the word that Donald Trump uses. And that’s why she’s using it. And it’s outrageous, and it’s disgusting,” Cheney said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “These are people who were involved in violence against police officers in the assault on the Capitol, and … it’s disgraceful for Donald Trump to be saying what he’s saying.”

Elise Stefanik THROWS DOWN With Kristen Welker After NBC Anchor Plays Clip Exposing Her Changing Tune on Jan. 6​

The conversation heated up when Welker accused Stefanik of a flip-flop concerning the culpability of the rioters. The Meet the Press anchor played back Stefanik’s remarks just after the riot, in which she called it a “tragic day,” denounced the violence as “absolutely unacceptable,” “anti-American,” and said those responsible “must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

'You lied': Trump allies target 'MAGA' Mike Johnson over stalled release of Jan. 6 footage​

 

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Jan. 6 rioters who U.S. says ‘ignited’ path for Capitol attack convicted​

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.​

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 did not take the stand in his own defense. Nor did any of his co-defendants: James T. Grant, 31, of Cary, N.C.; Paul R. Johnson, 38, of Lanexa, Va.; Stephen C. Randolph, 34, of Harrodsburg, Ky.; or Jason B. Blythe, 28, of Fort Worth.

Ex-Boston K-9 officer admits assaulting Capitol Police officer with chair on Jan. 6​

Joseph Fisher was arrested in March 2023 after online "sedition hunters" who have assisted the FBI in hundreds of cases against Capitol rioters identified him as the man seen in surveillance footage inside the Capitol assaulting a police officer. Fisher pleaded guilty to all the charges he was facing, including felony civil disorder and a count of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers.

Suburban Chicago couple latest Illinois residents to be charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot​

Kelly Fontaine and Brian Dula face four counts of knowing and unlawful entry to a restricted building, disorderly conduct in restricted buildings, disorderly conduct in and around the U.S. Capitol and parading and picketing in and around the Capitol, according to a criminal complaint and arrest warrant dated Wednesday.

‘I’m not breaking anything. This is our house’: Woman who claims she was ‘sucked into’ the Capitol on Jan. 6, then spent 40 mins wandering around inside, is arrested

A woman who allegedly roamed the Capitol on Jan. 6 for 40 minutes, was caught on video by a Proud Boy livestreamer and then spotted on Capitol surveillance footage making her way into multiple rooms — including hideaway offices of U.S. senators — all while clutching a Coca-Cola before she left to disrupt police overwhelmed outside, has been arrested.

But Sandra “Sandy” Lee Hodges wanted the FBI to know during her interview with them last April, she was “swallowed by the crowd” and “sucked into the building,” an FBI statement of facts reviewed on Thursday by Law&Crime shows.

Jan. 6 Rioter Couldn’t Describe Capitol’s ‘Function,’ Feds Say​

But Duong Dai Luu allegedly admitted he knew better than to break into its hallowed halls.

Infowars host doomed his own Jan. 6 appeal by pleading guilty: report​

The Infowars host [Owen Shroyer] who tried to fight his two-month Jan. 6 riots sentence forgot one important thing: he waived his right to appeal when he pleaded guilty.

 

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State Dept. diplomatic security officer charged with Jan. 6 trespassing​

Kevin Alstrup of the District worked as uniformed security officer, is not accused of violence or vandalism​

A diplomatic security officer for the State Department was arrested in the District on Tuesday and charged with four misdemeanor counts related to his alleged actions entering the U.S. Capitol during the rioting on Jan. 6, 2021. He is not accused of fighting with police or committing any damage as he reportedly entered, walked around in and left the Capitol that day, which investigators determined through multiple videos and photographs.

A LinkedIn page that appears to be Alstrup’s states that he has worked as a security officer since 2010, that he has held top secret clearance and was sworn in as a special deputy U.S. marshal.

[State Dept. said he was a contractor and is no longer employed by State.]

 

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Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to former President Donald J. Trump who helped lay plans to keep Mr. Trump in office after the 2020 election, was sentenced on Thursday to four months in prison for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro ordered to report to prison​

CNN —
Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted of contempt of Congress, has been ordered to report to prison after a judge denied Navarro’s effort to stay out of prison while he appeals the conviction.

 

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Dillon [Montana] man guilty of felony obstruction charges for role in Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach​

Henry Phillip “Hank” Muntzer, 55, was found guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder, both felonies, following a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb. [as well as some misdemeanors]

Muntzer was arrested by the FBI on Jan. 18, 2021. [link to previous thread]

Muntzer recorded multiple videos in which he commented that he had passed “through all the tear gas” to “tak[e] the Capitol by storm.”

Sentencing in June.

Article has a great photo of more of his storefront in Montana than was shown in the previous article.

 

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Amazon, eBay purchases helped link Proud Boy to Jan. 6 assault on officers, FBI says​

Amazon, eBay purchases helped link Proud Boy to Jan. 6 assault on officers, FBI says

Aaron Sauer, 43, who the FBI says was affiliated with the Proud Boys and went by the moniker "Roni," faces at least nine charges, including felony counts of civil disorder and assaulting officers. The Justice Department alleges that Sauer was wearing a bulletproof vest when he assaulted law enforcement officers with pepper spray and helped destroy a black metal fence on the west side of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.


Prosecutors said Sauer traveled to Washington with Dominic Pezzola, a Proud Boys member who smashed a window at the Capitol and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Sauer also traveled with Matthew Greene, a Proud Boys member who pleaded guilty in December 2021 and is cooperating with the government. Sauer, the FBI said, was also seen with William Pepe, a Proud Boy from the Hudson Valley of New York who has also been charged in connection with Jan. 6.

 

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New Jersey Man Arrested on Felony and Misdemeanor Charges For Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach​

Defendant Accused of Assaulting Officer​

Peter Michael Krill, 54, of Sewell, New Jersey, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with two felonies: assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; and civil disorder; and four misdemeanors:

Peter Michael Krill, Jr., 55, of New Jersey, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison with 12 months of supervised release. He was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution, authorities said in a news release. Krill pleaded guilty in October to a felony charge of civil disorder.

 

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New Jan. 6 footage appears to show rioter firing a gun in the air during Capitol attack

WASHINGTON — Newly unearthed footage from Jan. 6, 2021, appears to show a rioter — a man identified in an NBC News story nearly two years ago — firing a gun into the air outside the Capitol during the attack.

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Banuelos has not been arrested or charged in connection with Jan. 6; the Salt Lake City police had arrested him in connection with the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Christopher Thomas Senn in a park on July 4, 2021.

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The new footage was released this week by Derrick Evans, a Jan. 6 rioter who has admitted that he committed a felony on Jan. 6 and was sentenced to three months in federal prison. He is a former West Virginia legislator and is now running for Congress, having screamed at police officers that day on his own livestream: “We’re taking this country back whether you like it or not!”

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Two Weeks of Chaos​

Docs Obtained by TPM Show Trump Lawyers’ Plan To Make Jan. 6 Last For Days On End

The plan would have seen the Trump campaign pushing Republican lawmakers to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win not just on Jan. 6, but for days afterwards. GOP legislators would have feigned confusion over competing slates of electors, paralyzing Congress as the Trump campaign brought increasing pressure on the Supreme Court to step in and resolve the election in their favor.

To do this, Chesebro formulated various ways to invalidate the Electoral Count Act, the law laying out the procedures for Congress to certify the election on Jan. 6. Critically, the law places tight limits on how long individual lawmakers can debate disputed electoral votes — nullifying or inflating those limits, capped at five minutes per member and two hours total, could make Jan. 6 go on indefinitely.

 

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@kyledcheney

NEWS: KELLYE SORELLE. an attorney for the Oath Keepers, has been charged as part of the conspiracy to obstruct the Jan. 6 proceeding of Congress.

Oath Keeper attorney and girlfriend to convicted seditionist found competent to stand trial: Judge​

A few months ago, a “mental disease or defect” temporarily barred Oath Keeper attorney Kelly SoRelle from facing trial for charges related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but now her mental competency has been restored after an evaluation by the Bureau of Prisons, a federal judge has found.

 

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Anti-vaccine protester now charged with assaulting officers on Jan. 6​

Mitchell Bosch, who had previously run for the New York City Council, yelled "hold the line!" as the mob fought with officers on Jan. 6, according to the FBI.

Bosch, according to an FBI affidavit, "can be seen in multiple instances" on video of the riot "opposing the police advance by pushing directly against the officers, assisting other rioters in pushing against officers, and encouraging other rioters to oppose the police."

Bosch had previously run for the City Council as a Republican, and the New York Post had documented his arrests at a Cheesecake Factory, an Applebee's and a Burger King in December 2021, when he was opposing the city's vaccination mandate. Bosch was also arrested at the Museum of Natural History in January 2022 while protesting vaccination mandates, according to the Post.

There have been a number of arrests of Jan. 6 defendants in recent days. Daniel Hatcher, Nathan Mackie and his brother Brandon Mackie were also charged in a case unsealed Wednesday, and Thomas Method was arrested in Massachusetts. Cameron Clapp, a triple amputee, was arrested in California on Tuesday.

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As for Mr. Method:

Massachusetts Man Arrested on Felony and Misdemeanor Charges for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach​

Law enforcement identified a video manifesto recorded on Jan. 5, 2021, where Method allegedly stated: “Hopefully the strength in numbers and this movement will get more Senators on board, and we can overthrow this . . . . I don’t care what happens as long as Trump maintains his presidency. I have a feeling it’s going to be mayhem, chaos, and pandemonium.”

 

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‘I just kinda broke it in half. It felt so good’: Man seen in video smashing Nancy Pelosi’s [previously smashed] sign on Jan. 6 is arrested, feds say

David Anthony Medina is charged with a felony offense of obstruction of an official proceeding and several misdemeanors, officials said.

“We were normal, good, law-abiding citizens, and you guys [the government] did this to us. We want our country back,” he says as he faces the camera before walking further into the Capitol building.

 

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December:

Sacramento County, California Man Arrested on Felony and Misdemeanor Charges for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach​

Kyle Travis Colton, of Citrus Heights, California, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with a felony offense of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

February:

Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant from Citrus Heights indicted on receipt of child [you know what]​

 

[camille70]

I foresee the GOP becoming the champions of restoring felon voting rights. Silver lining, I guess. Of course they will probably try to do some sort of carve out where it applies mostly to their base of J6 felons.

 

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‘I just stormed the [doggone] capitol building and helped kick down the chamber door’: Man who faced off with armed guards on Jan. 6 faces felony charge​

Barry Allen Toth, 35, is charged with a felony offense of obstruction of an official proceeding and several misdemeanors, including entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

 

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Philadelphia man charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot​

Kenneth Giusini, 67, was arrested in Philadelphia Thursday on both felony [obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder] and misdemeanor charges 37 months after the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach.​

 

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Jan. 6-Themed Pinball Machine Turns Heads at CPAC 2024​

...the novel arcade game, whose creator, Jonathan Linowes, said “I didn’t want to really keep quiet anymore” and that he goal was to explain “a lot of the truth that happened” that day. The game has a number of “modes,” including “It’s a Setup” and “Babbitt Murder”—all of which play scenes from the Capitol riot on a video screen above the game.

[ETA: link to developer with free downloadable game files - runs on Visual Pinball]

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Defiant Jan. 6 rioter spars with judge at sentencing hearing​

Brandon Fellows, 29, was sentenced to 3½ years in prison as an exasperated federal judge boomed, ‘It’s time for you to grow up!’​

A tree cutter who smoked marijuana in a senator’s office during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 3½ years in prison Thursday after his strategy of interrupting and challenging the sentencing judge seemed to blow up in his face.

Fellows, from Upstate New York, chose to represent himself through most of his legal proceedings and was found in contempt at his trial after calling U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden a “modern-day Nazi” running a “kangaroo court.”

In a court filing Tuesday that he conceded was “rambling,” Fellows continued to assert that “the election was stolen, and we had and have a right to go in and throw the people out who made this happen.”

Previously in Brandon Fellows...

Deputy who claimed to help police sentenced in Jan. 6 attacks on officers​

Off-duty Tenn. sheriff’s deputy Ronald McAbee, who assaulted two police officers and dragged one down steps, was sentenced to 70 months in prison​

Ronald McAbee, 30, struck D.C. police officer Carter Moore twice in the face while wearing hard-knuckle gloves and a bulletproof vest with two patches that read “SHERIFF” and “III” (for the Three Percenters right-wing, anti-government movement).

Moore was trying to help a fallen D.C. police officer, Andrew Wayte, after a third officer had been dragged down the steps and beaten at the entrance of a bloodily fought-over tunnel at the Lower West Terrace at about 4:30 p.m. Video showed that McAbee, another rioter and police then grabbed hold of Wayte and began pulling in different directions “in a violent tug-of-war with Wayte’s defenseless body as the rope,” U.S. District Judge Rudy Contreras said at McAbee’s sentencing hearing in D.C.

Contreras said McAbee came armed to Washington saying he was ready to fight for children and future generations, suggesting he was not thinking about self-defense from counterprotesters, and posed for a photograph the following day holding a newspaper with the headline “INSURRECTION.”

McAbee pleaded guilty in September to assaulting Moore and was convicted after trial in October of Wayte’s assault. He was sentenced on all seven counts charged by prosecutors including felony rioting and trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon (his reinforced gloves).

Previously in Ronald McAbee...

 

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Some Jan. 6 rioters received improper sentence enhancements, appeals court rules​

The challenge was brought in the case of convicted rioter Larry Brock.

The three-judge panel ruled that defendants convicted of obstructing the congressional certification had received improper enhancements of their sentences from district court judges who determined their actions amounted to "substantial interference with the 'administration of justice.'"

In their ruling, the panel of judges upheld Brock's conviction but ordered the district judge overseeing his case to resentence him and remove the enhancement he had previously included

The ruling comes as the Justice Department is preparing to make its case before the Supreme Court to not overturn a key felony obstruction charge used against hundreds of rioters that defense attorneys have argued stretches beyond what the statute intended.