By Glynn Wilson – Guy Wesley Reffitt, the first Trump insurrectionist to face trial in the massive criminal investigation into the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, was sentenced by a federal judge on Monday to more than seven years in federal prison, the longest sentence to date. Judge Dabney L. Friedrich handed down a…
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Florida Trump Supporter Arrested and Charged For Assaulting Police During Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Another Trump supporter from Florida was arrested and charged this week for assaulting police officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob breached the building and disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of certifying the electoral votes confirming Joe Biden as president.…
Reward Offered for Trump Supporter From Florida Involved in Capitol Insurrection
Virginia Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Felony Conspiracy – New Mexico Man Found Guilty – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A reward of $15,000 is being offered in exchange for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Jonathan Daniel Pollock, 23, of Lakeland, Florida, for his role in connection with the violence at…
Wisconsin Trump Supporter Arrested and Charged for Assaulting Police During Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Trump supporter from Wisconsin was arrested last week for assaulting police and using a deadly or dangerous weapon during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted the peaceful transfer of power by delaying a joint session of Congress in the process of certifying…
Trump Supporters from Idaho, Texas and Florida Taken Down for Assaulting Police, Obstructing Congress and Conspiracy in Capitol Insurrection
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The radical domestic terrorists who got sucked into Donald Trump’s insurrectionist message against a legitimate election and followed the former president into the violent breach of the citadel of American Democracy on Jan. 6, 2021, are being taken out one by one and shown the inside of federal…
Department of Justice Announces Four More Arrests in Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice announced four more arrests of Trump supporters involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection in the past week from Maryland, Tennessee, Texas and Michigan. A Maryland man was arrested this week on charges stemming from the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,…
Trump Supporters from Massachusetts and Georgia Arrested For Assaulting Cops During Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – WASHINGTON. D.C. — A Massachusetts man was arrested this week for assaulting police during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of certifying the electoral votes confirming Joe Biden as the winner in the presidential election of 2020. Vincent…
Democrats Demand Investigation of Republican Running for Governor in Maryland for Involvement in Capitol Insurrection
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of progressive Democrats inspired by the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders in 2016 is going after a far right Trump supporting candidate for governor of Maryland, Dan Cox, who is now a Republican member of the state House of Delegates and has filed articles of impeachment…
FBI and Justice Department Continue to Track Down Capitol Insurrectionists
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eleven months after the violent attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 by fired up Trump supporters that came harrowingly close to stopping a peaceful transfer of power for the first time in American history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice are still…
Trump Supporters from California and New York Arrested and Charged in Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three Trump supporters from New York and another from California have been arrested and charged for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of counting the electoral votes in the presidential election of 2020.…
Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Indicted for Contempt of Congress for Refusing to Cooperate in the House Capitol Insurrection Investigation
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the face of mounting criticism of President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland for not bringing the full weight of the U.S. Department of Justice down hard on Trump loyalists involved in a plot to mount an insurrection Jan. 6 and stop Congress from legally certifying Biden…
New Jersey Man Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison for Assaulting Police During Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A New Jersey man was sentenced to 41 months in prison this week for assaulting a Metropolitan Police Department officer and committing other criminal conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of counting the electoral…
Pennsylvania Man Arrested for Assaulting Police During Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – A Pennsylvania man was arrested this week for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of counting the final electoral votes in the presidential election of 2020. Michael James Dickinson, 30, of Philadelphia, is charged with federal…
Two Charged with Conspiracy, Obstruction and Assault on Police Related to Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – A superseding indictment was unsealed recently adding new charges against two men for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of counting the electoral votes in the presidential election of 2020. Ronald Sandlin, 34, of Shelby County,…
House Select Committee Investigating Capitol Insurrection Issues New Subpoenas
Mark Meadows, Daniel Scavino, Kashyap Patel and Stephen Bannon Targeted – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a new round of subpoenas on Thursday seeking documents and testimony from four individuals with close ties to the former president who were working…
Kansas Man Arrested for Assaulting Police During Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – A Kansas man was arrested Monday for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of counting the Electoral College votes in the presidential election of 2020. Michael Eckerman, 37, of Wichita, is charged…
Six More Plead Guilty for Role in Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – Six more people pleaded guilty on Friday to charges connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including a man who threatened to shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the head. Cleveland Meredith Jr. missed the pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, but stuck around long enough to tell family members…
FBI Seeks Public Assistance in Identifying Massachusetts Man Involved in Assault of Federal Officers During U.S. Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a man who is wanted for an alleged assault on federal law enforcement officers during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. The FBI released new photos of this individual on Thursday in its efforts to identify…
Capitol Insurrection Investigative Committee Seeks Records That Could Implicate President Trump and Other Republicans in Planning the Assault
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is quietly signaling that former President Donald Trump and other Republicans involved in inciting the seditious assault may not escape scrutiny. Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, the Democrat from Mississippi, and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, the Republican from Wyoming,…
Capitol Insurrectionist Known as the QAnon Shaman Pleads Guilty to One Felony Count
Jacob Chansley Could Face Two Years in the Federal Pen, and Some Say That’s Not Nearly Enough – By Glynn Wilson – The QAnon Shaman of Capitol insurrection fame pleaded guilty to one felony count on Friday and could face two years in the federal penitentiary. Jacob Chansley, a former Navy sailor and alleged actor…