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The Hill reports: The FBI on Thursday released new footage of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, asking the public for help identifying rioters who assaulted police officers during the insurrection. The videos show assailants attacking officers with fists, clubs, unknown chemical sprays and even a device that resembles a baton stun gun or cattle prod. In one clip, …

Law & Crime reports: According to online court records, Robert Scott Palmer, 53, of Largo, Fla., is charged with assaulting, resisting, or impending officers or employees; civil disorder; and entering in or remaining upon restricted buildings or grounds with relation to the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. The FBI posted images showing the man’s …

USA Today reports: Federal agents said Monday the Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville was motivated by the bomber’s intention to kill himself and was not an act of terrorism. After a wide-ranging investigation, the FBI said in a report that the bomber, Anthony Quinn Warner, acted “in an effort to end his own life.” The FBI said Warner was …

USA Today reports: They’ve mined tens of thousands of photos and videos. They followed trails the rioters left on social media bragging about being inside the Capitol, like the Florida man toting a rostrum or the New Hampshire man who snapped a selfie with a pilfered bottle of wine. And they’ve arrested almost 300. But, as many as 500 remain …

Law & Crime reports: A South Carolina man faces federal charges after admitting to federal agents that he traveled to Washington, D.C., with his wife on Jan. 6th, attended then-president Donald Trump’s rally, and entered the U.S. Capitol rotunda. Text messages the man shared with relatives indicate he bragged that he had dressed “like ANTIFA.” According court papers on file …

Fort Lauderdale’s NBC News affiliate reports: Agents with the FBI were involved in a raid at a home in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday morning that left a suspect in custody. A large law enforcement presence was seen at the home in the area of Southwest 6th Street and 14th Avenue. FBI officials said they arrested 32-year-old Paul N. Miller for being …

NBC News reports: FBI Director Christopher Wray is expected to face questions from Congress on Tuesday about whether his intelligence analysts missed warning signs before the riot at the U.S. Capitol and how the bureau plans to confront the rising threat of domestic terrorism. Wray’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee will be his first public testimony since September and …

The New York Daily News reports: A New Jersey man who bragged online about storming the U.S. Capitol in the name of Donald Trump told friends he’d urinated in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional office during the riots — and regretted not leaving “s–t” on her chair when he had the chance, according to federal documents unsealed Friday. Friends of …

Law & Crime reports: Of the footage that impeachment managers unspooled during former President Donald Trump’s Senate trial, one of the most brutal scenes showed rioters engaging in hand-to-hand combat with authorities inside the tunnel leading to the U.S. Capitol. On Feb. 11, just one day after footage of the melee inside the tunnel became public, the FBI Newark Field …

Law & Crime reports: Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. have identified and charged a man they say assaulted a Capitol police officer during the Jan. 6th siege on the U.S. Capitol Complex. According to a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday, the defendant, Clayton Ray Mullins, stood out in videos of the scene due to his hairstyle. Mullins is accused of attacking …

Law & Crime reports: A defendant facing federal charges over the U.S. Capitol siege on Jan. 6 is facing the hard reality that it’s not a good idea to text one’s ex while engaged in dubious and potentially criminal conduct. Accused pro-Trump rioter Richard Michetti is accused of texting his ex to tell her that she was a “moron” if …

The Daily Beast reports: A Florida woman is facing charges after allegedly threatening to shoot FBI agents who contacted her last month about her possible involvement in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol. Suzanne Kaye, a Boca Raton, Florida, resident, was charged this week with threatening to injure a person after posting a Jan. 31 video on Facebook, titled “Fuck …

The Associated Press reports: The uncle of a Missouri woman accused of participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last month is now facing charges himself. A federal complaint against William Merry Jr. of St. Louis County was unsealed late Thursday. Merry is the uncle of Emily Hernandez, 21, of Sullivan, who was charged on Jan. 16. A charging …

Buzzfeed News reports: A man who was filmed macing police officers during the attempted coup at the US Capitol last month was arrested by the FBI on Thursday, authorities said. Peter Schwartz, a 47-year-old from Owensboro, Kentucky, faces numerous charges, including one for forcibly assaulting an officer. According to an affidavit, Schwartz was part of a mob that swarmed officers …

Pittsburgh’s CBS News affiliate reports: A Mercer County woman wanted for her involvement in the riots at the U.S. Capitol last month has been taken into custody. According to law enforcement, Rachel Powell was taken into custody on Thursday night in New Castle. She is facing charges of obstruction, depredation of government property, entering restricted space without authority and violent …

Pittsburgh’s CBS News reports: The FBI raided the home of Rachel Powell, a Mercer County mother of eight suspected of playing a role in the assault on the U.S. Capitol. NewsChopper 2 flew over Powell’s Sandy Lakes home Thursday afternoon. The FBI says it was conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity there. They’re looking for Powell, who is nowhere to be …

CNN reports: The FBI recently raided the homes of two men who sponsored an invective-laced rally near the US Capitol a day before the deadly insurrection, the first known search warrants involving people who organized and spoke at rallies preceding the attack. CNN learned of the raids through an eyewitness account, public records, a lawyer representing one of the rally …

Fort Lauderdale’s ABC News affiliate reports: Two FBI agents were fatally shot Tuesday morning while serving a warrant in Sunrise, law enforcement sources told Local 10 News. According to those sources, three agents were hospitalized and the suspect took their own life. A law enforcement official, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity as they were …

Law & Crime reports: They had his number. Federal authorities identified an Ohio man as a Capitol invader by merely looking at the name and number on the jacket his wearing while storming the Capitol and kicking in a window. As a result, Troy Faulkner, 39, now faces several federal charges. The FBI said that it saw Faulkner on a …

Law & Crime reports: “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain but we didn’t find her.” Federal authorities are attributing those words to Dawn Bancroft, and they say she was talking about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Bancroft and Diana Santos-Smith are now facing charges over the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Investigators alleged …