Justice Department officials announced the arrests of three of the most sensational rioters of the Capitol siege last week – including the shirtless, enveloped intruder who went viral after turning the Senate portal into a personal throne worthy of Conan the Barbarian .
Jacob Anthony Chansley called the FBI’s office in Washington on Thursday and later turned himself in to police, federal officials said.
“Chansley said he came from Arizona as part of a group effort with other ‘patriots’, at the request of the president that all ‘patriots’ come to DC on January 6, 2021,” the DOJ said.
Chansley, 33, who calls himself the ‘QAnon Shaman’, was only the strangest of the hundreds of extremists who violated Trump on Wednesday and are now being arrested in the country.
The collaborators also announced that Adam Christian Johnson, 36, had been arrested in a viral video that allegedly streamed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and a West Virginia lawmaker, who assisted – for investigators – live. , shouted, ‘Derrick Evans is in the Capitol! ”
Many thanks to the images that the rioters themselves passed on on the day, and which are now flooding the internet, by prosecutors filed at least 17 cases against said suspects at the federal district court on Saturday, claiming that serious crimes took place with high punishment as violent entry . and assault of federal officers.
At least 40 other cases in the Columbia District High Court allege fewer charges, including violations of curfew rules and violent gun crimes. They face various offenses, including assaulting police officers, encroaching areas of the U.S. Capitol, stealing federal property and threatening lawmakers.
Prosecutors said additional cases remained under seal.
Those charged federally include Lonnie Coffman of Falkville, Ala., A 70-year-old who allegedly brought guns and 11 Mason-year Molotov cocktails in his pickup truck after the protest.
Mark Warner, a Democrat who is the incoming chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Saturday called on mobile service providers to preserve social media content related to the uprising, which left five people dead, including the police officer of the Capitol, Brian Sicknick.
Johnson, a man from Parrish, Florida, is allegedly portrayed in a viral photo depicting Pelosi’s pulpit. He was arrested Friday in his home country and is being held on a federal warrant in Pinellas County Jail after the U.S. Marshals picked him up, ABC News reported. .
He was charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or site without lawful authority; one case of theft of government property; and one of the violent intrusion and disorderly conduct on the Capitol site, federal officials said.
Johnson is a stay-at-home dad who lives with his wife and their five children, reports The Bradenton Herald.
The pastor found the day after the siege in a hallway of the Senate wing outside the Rotunda.
It has a value of “more than $ 1,000”, according to authorities, quoted by the House of Representatives curator.
Richard Barnett, 60, a riot who took pictures with his luggage on Pelos’ desk, is charged with trespassing, theft of public property and other federal crimes.
Evans, a first-year member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, allegedly streamed himself alive to enter the Capitol, with the mob, on Facebook. as he crosses the threshold, “We are in, we are in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol! ”
As he knowingly entered or remained in a restricted building, violent access and disorderly conduct, he left the House of Representatives on Saturday.
“I hope it helps to begin the healing process,” he said in a letter of thanks, “so that we can all move forward and come together as ‘one nation under God.’
His lawyer insisted he was “not part of the main body” of rioters and did nothing wrong during the offense.
Among those whose arrests were announced Saturday, the cornerstone for strangeness still belongs to Chansley.
“This individual was carrying a spear about 6 feet long with an American flag tied just below the blade,” said experts from Chansley, 33, also known as Jake Angeli, who bowed Saturday.
Chansley is an avid Trump supporter, wearing the same horn as he utters conspiracy theories at state capital in Phoenix, according to the Republic of Arizona.
Chansley, who visited QAnon supporters at a Trump rally in Phoenix in February 2020, told the crowd: ‘The snowball has rolled, and it’s just getting bigger. We are now the mainstream, ”reports the store.
He is charged with knowingly entering or residing in any restricted building or site without lawful authority, and of violent trespassing and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
“The fact that we had a bunch of our traitors in the office putting on their gas masks and pulling them back into their underground bunker, I consider a victory,” Chansley, identified as Angeli, said after the riot to NBC News said.
He said his beliefs are based on internet research from groups he believes control the world, such as the Illuminati.
“At some point, everything clicked in a way,” he told the Republic.
‘Oh my God. I now see the reality of what’s going on. ”
The mayor of Gravette, Arkansas, also issued a public statement on Saturday after Barnett, a one-time resident, collided after sitting in Pelos’ office, his dirty work shoe on top of her desk.
“It’s unfortunate that something like this puts you in the public eye,” Mayor Kurt Maddox told Fox24. “It’s not the city of Gravette, this one person is not who Gravette is and not who the people are.”
Resident Joseph Cowan told the station: ‘We are a bunch of good people [and] we only had that one spoiled egg, I think, which now caused Gravette a lot of trouble. ‘
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