WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was arrested Tuesday on a conspiracy cost for his suspected function in a coordinated assault on the U.S. Capitol to cease Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
Proud Boys former chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio wasn’t there when the riot erupted on Jan. 6, 2021. Police had arrested Tarrio in Washington two days earlier than the riot and charged him with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church throughout a protest in December 2020. Tarrio was launched from jail on Jan. 14 after serving his five-month sentence for that case.
The brand new riot-related expenses are among the many most severe filed to date, however they aren’t the primary of their variety. Eleven members or associates of the antigovernment Oath Keepers militia group, together with its founder and chief Stewart Rhodes, had been charged on Jan. 12 with seditious conspiracy within the Capitol assault.
Greater than three dozen individuals charged within the Capitol siege have been recognized by federal authorities as Proud Boys leaders, members or associates.
A New York man pleaded responsible in December to storming the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members. Matthew Greene was the primary Proud Boys member to publicly plead responsible to conspiring with different members to cease Congress from certifying the Electoral Faculty vote. Greene agreed to cooperate with authorities.
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