According to court records, Lopatic, of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is charged with assaulting a police officer, civil disorder, trespassing on restricted grounds, physical violence on restricted grounds and disorderly conduct in a restrictive building.
The criminal charge and the FBI statement filed against Lopatic remain under seal, but a motion for privileged detention sheds light on the government’s case against him.
According to the motion, a Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer tried to rescue another riot officer outside the Capitol when Lopatic ’emerged from the crowd, climbed over a handrail and the officer charged ‘.
In the description of the assault, which was captured on the police camera, the prosecutors say that Lopatic ‘assaulted the officer by constantly punching him in the head, and that the accused at one point (the officer) to the head and apparently struck him with a capital letter. ‘
Prosecutors also said that after the alleged assault, Lopatic saw him steal a camera from another MPD official and later destroyed it. ‘Prosecutors said Lopatic had to break through a’ human shield ‘of’ protesters trying to protect against the violent crowd ‘.
Lopatic told FBI agents that he stole the body and got rid of it when he traveled back home from the riot.
In the months and weeks before the riots, prosecutors also said Lopatic had posted ‘threatening messages about elected leaders in Washington’. Lopatic allegedly posted a number of photos of the birds he shot during the hunt, and wrote in the captions that he named them after Democratic politicians.
“I got a double today,” Lopatic apparently wrote according to a screenshot in the motion. ‘Two shots, two dead. Both headshots. I have a rooster and a hen. I call them Joe and Kamala. ‘
They also say that he wrote on January 1 and pleads for others to “MAKE MEETING ON CAPITAL JANUARY 6, 2021. UNIT OUR STAND, GO AHEAD AND WE STRIVE.”
CNN contacted the Lopatic lawyer who declined to comment on the charges. Court records show that a federal judge granted the prosecutor’s motion for the preliminary detention of Lopatic.