In the three years since the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, more than 1,300 participants have been charged with crimes. But outside a few of the flashiest and most memorable characters from the day, most individual prosecutions have passed with little public note. Last Monday, however, the news of one arrest was met with more outrage: […]
WASHINGTON — A federal judge who has overseen numerous criminal cases against Donald Trump supporters who viciously assaulted police officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol expressed concern during a sentencing hearing Thursday that the former president could trigger another violent attack in the lead-up to or aftermath of the 2024 presidential election. […]
A Kentucky man who was labeled as the first person to breach the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection has been found guilty by a federal jury for his actions during the riot, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Michael Sparks, 46, from Elizabethtown, was convicted of multiple felony and misdemeanor offenses […]
A New York man who climbed through a broken window during the 2021 Capitol riot and went on to relax in a Senate office with some marijuana has received a prison sentence of three and a half years. First, though, he exchanged some heated words with U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden. The judge admonished Brandon […]
WASHINGTON — The very first rioter to breach the U.S. Capitol is on trial this week, with federal prosecutors laying out extensive evidence that he bought into and regurgitated the lies being spread by Republican politicians, some conservative news outlets and former President Donald Trump about his 2020 election loss. Michael Sparks, who worked at […]
WASHINGTON — A Minnesota man convicted of assaulting multiple officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol called for “accountability” for politicians who spread lies about the 2020 election during his sentencing hearing on Thursday. Brian Mock was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison, a fraction of the nine years in federal […]
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. Online sleuths who have aided in hundreds of Jan. 6 prosecutions say he is the […]
A Des Moines man who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was released from a federal prison in Texas. Doug Jensen, 44, who was described as a “leader of the mob,” by prosecutors and officers who defended the Capitol, was transferred to a halfway home in Kansas City, Kansas, in mid-January. Jensen’s wife, […]
WASHINGTON — A Pennsylvania man who marched to the Capitol on Jan. 6 with a giant flag portraying former President Donald Trump as “Rambo” and then led the violent breach of the police line was convicted on several felony charges Friday. Ryan Samsel, one of the first instigators of the Capitol riot, was convicted of […]
WASHINGTON — The FBI this week arrested a New Jersey man who wore a throwback Philadelphia Eagles beanie to the Jan. 6 riot after online “sedition hunters” identified him with the help of facial recognition and Facebook photos from a 2020 family trip to a pumpkin patch. Lee Giobbie, 40, a financial adviser from Eastampton, […]
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who “blind-side tackled” a U.S. Capitol Police officer from behind on Jan. 6 and flipped him over a ledge is set to be sentenced on Tuesday. Ralph Celentano, a New York man who thought Donald Trump was the greatest president in American history, was arrested in 2022 and convicted […]
Joe Kent, center, speaks during a Joe Kent, center, speaks during a “Justice For J6” rally in September 2021, calling for better treatment for those accused of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Joe Kent, a right-wing Republican who is vying for a rematch against Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), […]