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The Washington Post reports: One week after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Robert Chapman sent a message to a prospective love interest on the dating app Bumble to brag that he had taken part. “I did storm the capitol,” he said, according to court documents. “I made it all the way to Statuary Hall.” His potential …

It’s quite the bad day for terrible people: Federal authorities arrested a suspect in the U.S. Capitol riot in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, on Tuesday after they used facial recognition programs to find an image of him on his girlfriend’s Instagram page. Stephen Chase Randolph, federal authorities say, knocked over a U.S. Capitol Police officer manning the barriers at the building, “causing …

The Daily Beast reports: Despite the fact that Capitol insurrectionist William Robert Norwood III allegedly stole body armor, lied to the FBI, and “led a pack of rioters through the inner sanctum of Speaker Pelosi’s office space” where he lifted a paper coaster, he has been released pending his trial, according to Department of Justice documents seen by The Daily …

Law & Crime reports: Three accused U.S. Capitol rioters have been indicted for participating in the assault of Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was beaten, Tasered, and robbed of his badge and radio on Jan. 6th. Rioters also attempted to pull out his gun from his holster. Fanone reportedly suffered a mild heart attack that day and spoke about …

The Washington Post reports: When Jeffrey Sabol returned to his Colorado home after allegedly storming the U.S. Capitol and assaulting two police officers on Jan. 6, he fried his electronic devices in the microwave, destroyed any materials he thought could be “misconstrued as anti-government,” and stashed his guns at a friend’s house, prosecutors said. Then he traveled to Boston with …

Washington DC’s CBS News affiliate reports: New Kent County, Virginia, man was charged in the Capitol riot Wednesday afternoon on multiple counts, including allegations he knocked an officer unconscious. Paul Russell Johnson, 35, of Lanexa, Virginia, was arrested and appeared in court for his initial hearing on Wednesday. He faces six counts, including inflicting bodily injury on officers, obstruction of …

Washington DC’s CBS News affiliate reports: A Maryland man locked up for allegedly assaulting police officers on January 6 wants a judge to let him out of jail – claiming it was actually the police who assaulted him. Prosecutors say video, still images and multiple officers’ sworn statements tell a much different story. Before January 6, Daniel Egtvedt boasted on …

Minneapolis’s ABC News reports: FBI special agents arrested Jonah Westbury, 26, of Lindstrom, on Friday. According to the statement of facts linked to his arrest, the FBI received tips from two separate people within days of the riot in Washington, D.C. The day after the attack, one person who said they went to high school with the suspect told the …

Law & Crime reports: “On February 19, 2021, Anthony Richard Moat contacted the FBI and admitted to being inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,” says an agent’s Statement of Facts. “On that same date, Moat sent a video taken on his cellular telephone while inside the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021 to FBI Task Force Officer …

The Wisconsin State Journal reports: A criminal complaint filed on Friday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charges Michael Fitzgerald, 42, with three counts: obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. According to a statement filed in court …

Buzzfeed News reports: Federal prosecutors are in “advanced plea negotiations” with an alleged Capitol rioter with Oath Keeper ties in exchange for his cooperation with the ongoing investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurgency, a new filing in federal court revealed Monday. The public filing had apparently been made in error — prosecutors had intended to file it under seal …

Law & Crime reports: Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. on Monday asked a federal judge to reconsider allowing a man accused of assaulting several police officers with a weapon during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol to be released from jail ahead of trial. Prosecutors argue that Jack Wade Whitton poses a serious threat to the safety of …

The South Florida SunSentinel reports: A license plate reader’s ping in Hollywood led police to a Dania Beach hotel room and an alleged insurrectionist who is facing several federal charges following the Capitol riots on Jan. 6 in Washington D.C. The FBI arrested Richard L. Harris on March 18 at the Comfort Suites for his alleged role in the storming …

The Daily Beast reports: A Florida college student was arrested Thursday for striking a police officer in the head with a skateboard during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, leaving him with a concussion, the FBI said in an affidavit. Grady Douglas Owens, a student at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, faces up to 36 years behind bars if …

The Washington Post reports: A man photographed inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot with a handful of plastic handcuffs and the mother with whom he traveled to Washington will be released from jail to home confinement ahead of their trial after weeks of debate over how dangerous they might be. Eric Munchel, 30, and his mother, Lisa …

The Associated Press reports: Garret Miller didn’t speak to the law enforcement officers who arrested him on charges he stormed the U.S. Capitol in January, but the T-shirt he was wearing at his Dallas home that day sent a clear and possibly incriminating message. Miller’s shirt had a photograph of former President Donald Trump, and it said “Take America Back” …

Law & Crime reports: A U.S. Capitol rioter who brought a rope with him to Congress began searching for a Black officer that he believed fatally shot Ashli Babbitt and threatened to lynch him, federal prosecutors wrote in a legal brief on Monday. The startling allegation surfaced in court papers against 34-year-old Garret Miller, whom prosecutors want to keep behind …

Dallas’s NBC News affiliate reports: The FBI on Friday arrested a Carrollton man accused of throwing a firecracker at police officers as a mob pushed its way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. David Lee Judd, 35, is charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers and civil disorder. Judd was heard yelling “shield wall” as he encouraged others to …

The Charlotte Observer reports: Les Little was texting with a family relative on Jan. 6 when he shared a secret: “We just took over the Capitol,” the Catawba County man wrote from inside the building, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. “And you are bragging?” the relative fired back in a fusillade of exclamation points and capital letters. “’We’? THIS …

Law & Crime reports: A QAnon supporter allegedly fired paintball rounds at Army reservists at the Wisconsin Army Reserve Center in Pewaukee on Monday, authorities said. Defendant Ian Alan Olson, 31, drove a Subaru covered in spray-painted QAnon slogans, stepped out, yelled “This is for America,” and shot two or three rounds from an AR-15 style gun, according to the …