Newly Arrested Riot Suspect Was Out On Bail On First Degree Attempted Murder Charge On January 6th 2021

February 8, 2022 Extremists, Trump cultists

NBC News reports:

A Jan. 6 rioter who stormed the Capitol while he was out on bail on an attempted first-degree murder charge was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was first identified by online sleuths.

Matthew Jason Beddingfield, of North Carolina, faces felony charges of assaulting officers, impeding officers during a civil disorder and carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon on restricted Capitol grounds, as well as several misdemeanors, according to court records.

Beddingfield was first publicly identified in a HuffPost story in March after online sleuths investigating the Jan. 6 attack used facial recognition to find his mugshot and then confirmed his identification with the help of his father’s Facebook page.

Law & Crime reports:



He now faces a handful of charges, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon or inflicting bodily injury and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapons.

He is also charged with misdemeanors that have become standard in Jan. 6 cases, including disorderly conduct and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

In December of 2019, Beddingfield was charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting that took place outside a Walmart. He was out on bail at the time of the Jan. 6 siege, and has since pleaded guilty to a lesser charge that resulted in a sentence of probation.

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