D-List TV/Film Actor Is Latest Charged In Capitol Riot

The Los Angeles Daily News reports:

An actor accused of being in the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol in January and explicitly addressing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on camera identified himself to a crowd on his way out of the restricted building, allowing investigators to track him down and arrest him in Burbank, federal officials said Friday, Aug. 13.

Michael Aaron Carico, 33, was taken into custody by federal agents on Wednesday, Aug. 11, according to a warrant issued for his arrest. He was seen in numerous photos and videos captured during the Jan. 6 riot in Washington D.C. states a criminal complaint filed in July.

A video retrieved from Carico’s Google account shows him and a man wearing a white hat as they climb the ladder of the media tower on the West Front Lawn of the Capitol. “Hey Nancy,” Carico then says into the camera, apparently to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after reciting the closing lines of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” “Go [expletive] yourself.”

Read the full article. Carico has a long string of TV and film credits, but there’s likely nothing you’ve ever heard of.