Adam Johnson, 36, of Florida, was arrested in the state on Friday and booked into Pinellas County Jail just days after he was allegedly caught on camera wearing the Speaker of the House speaker. He is charged with one charge that he knowingly entered or resided in any restricted building or site without lawful authority; one case of theft of government property; and one count of violent trespassing and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Jacob Anthony Chansley, who was allegedly the man seen in photos dressed in horns, fur-scarf and face paint, was arrested on Saturday, according to the release. The man in Arizona is charged with knowingly entering or residing in any restricted building or site without legal authority, and for violent trespassing and disorderly conduct on the Capitol site.
It was not immediately clear on Saturday whether Johnson or Chansley had a lawyer.
The uprising on Capitol Hill shocked the country on Wednesday when a crowd of supporters of President Donald Trump besieged the American symbol of democracy, determined to stop Congress from confirming the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Derrick Evans, a West Virginia lawmaker who is allegedly charged among the rioters who stormed the Capitol building, is charged with one count of knowingly entering any restricted building or site without lawful authority; and one count of violent trespassing and disorderly conduct on Capitol Grounds. A federal magistrate’s judge in West Virginia has released him on his personal admission after appearing in court Friday afternoon, according to court statements.
Evans denied involvement in the destruction and violence and has since removed the clip, but not before it was shared on social media and broadcast by CNN subsidiary WCHS. In another video posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday morning, he laughs as he predicts a riot.
The Republican lawmaker said he filmed the event only as an “independent member of the media in film history,” although it appears he has no experience working as one.
His lawyer, John Bryan, said in a statement to CNN earlier on Thursday that his client “had no choice but to enter the Capitol” because of the size of the crowd he was in, and that “for Mr. . he may not follow the crowd to this public area of the Capitol, within which members of the public were already located. ‘
There are now 17 known federal criminal defendants associated with the riots in Capitol. Some are people who became violent with the police, others are taken down in the building during the destruction, and others are people who allegedly brought guns and ammunition and, in the case of one man, Molotov cocktails, around the Capitol.
CNN’s Chuck Johnston and Veronica Stracqualursi contributed to this report.
