Number of Pa. residents charged in U.S. Capitol riot more than doubles in less than a week
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo rioters break into the Capitol in Washington. Far-right media personality Tim Gionet, who calls himself “Baked Alaska,” has been arrested by the FBI for his involvement in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)AP
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As of Wednesday, that number stood at nine.
The latest defendants include a Harrisburg woman accused of stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop and a Mechanicsburg man charged with assaulting Capitol Police officers.
4 Pa. residents among those arrested so far over riot at U.S. Capitol PennLive.com 1/15/2021 Matt Miller, pennlive.com
As the investigation continues on a nationwide basis, four Pennsylvanians are so far facing charges tied directly to the Jan. 6 riot and ransacking at the U.S. Capitol.
That tally includes at least one midstate man, Terry Brown of Myerstown, Lebanon County. He is charged by the U.S. Capitol Police with unlawful entry of the Capitol during the rampage by a pro-Trump mob protesting the certification of Democrat Joe Biden as the nation’s next president.
Brown, 69, also is charged by the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., with entering the Capitol without lawful authority or with intent to impeded governmental business or official functions and engaging in disorderly conduct and violent entry.
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Federal authorities continued Tuesday to round up people following a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week and to file new charges against others who had already been arrested.
Authorities said they kept a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia tied up for hours on Tuesday as they prepared to file more charges in what acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin called an unprecedented investigation.
Home state: Pennsylvania
Charges
Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; and obstruction of an official proceeding
What happened
Vorous posted a photo on Facebook of himself inside the Capitol, standing in front of a bust of Abraham Lincoln, wearing a T-shirt that read NOT TODAY LIBERAL in white letters, while holding a red, white and blue cowboy hat, according to court documents. When Vorous posted the photo, according to the FBI, he asked if it looked staged and added: I promise the beanbags were real the mase [sic] is still burning on me aft a shower and 6hrs, the gas was real the flash grenades were also real.