The FBI on Sunday arrested two men dressed in military uniforms in the Senate chamber and with a zipper, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.
One of the men, Eric Gavelek Munchel, 30, was arrested in Nashville on one charge of illegal entry into a restricted building and one of violent trespassing and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, the department said. One of the officials involved in the case said authorities also recovered several weapons during his arrest.
The department also said that photos of a person who appeared to be Munchel showed that he had mounted plastic guards, an object in a holster on his right hip and a cellphone on his chest with the camera out, apparently to record events that day. ”
Attempts to Mr. Reaching Munchel before his arrest was unsuccessful.
The other man, Larry Rendell Brock, was arrested on the same charges in Texas after he was allegedly identified as one of the people who broke into the Capitol. The department said in its statement that images of a person who appeared to be him, Mr. Brock in a green helmet, green tactical vest with spots, black and a camo jacket and beige trousers with a white bending cuff, used by law enforcement officers to restrain and / or detain subjects. ”
The two men are among the more than twelve people charged by federal authorities in connection with the attack on Congress. Internet researchers in the days after the siege put together what their identity thought. Investigators in Washington, Tennessee and Texas are working on the cases; and the cases will be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington and the Department of Justice’s National Security Division’s counter – terrorism division.