Five members of a Texas family were arrested Tuesday in connection to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the largest family group apprehended following the deadly insurrection.
The five family members Thomas and Dawn Munn, and three of their children, Kristi, Joshua and Kayli, were all apprehended Tuesday and charged with illegally entering the Capitol and engaging in disorderly conduct among others.
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The Munn family traveled together from Borger, Texas, to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Stop the Steal rally that occurred before a group of former President Trump
They gained access to the Capitol on Jan. 6 by climbing through a window that had been damaged.
Updated on July 14, 2021 at 9:21 pm
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Federal authorities on Tuesday arrested a Wisconsin man and four members of his family in Texas on charges stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
The man s 54-year-old father Thomas Munn, his mother Dawn Munn, 55, and his sisters Kristi Munn, 29, and 18-year-old Kayli Munn were arrested in Borger, 40 miles northwest of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. All were booked into the Randall County Jail in Amarillo pending their initial court appearances Wednesday. Jail records list no attorneys for them.
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First Posted: Jul 14, 2021 08:16 AM EDT
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Five members of a Texas family have been charged for their alleged participation in the January 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol.
So far, more than 500 individuals have been arrested in the attack on the Capitol. There have been several married couples and a number of parent-and-children teams included in the list. Some of them were sets of siblings, charged with their participation in the Capitol riot.
However, on Tuesday, the Justice Department unsealed an unusual complaint. Included in the complaint were almost the entire family from Texas.
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reporter: with the man who appears to be patriarch, tom munn, spotted roaming the capitol halls in this video that was streamed online according to investigators. their family posed for a facebook post with a woman who appears to be tom s partner, dawn munn, second from the left and their three children, kayli, christy, josh, plus an unidentified minor. the caption saying, washington, d.c., here we come. hashtag stop the steal. investigators say tom munn posted about january 6th the week before, with this image of then-president trump and a caption promoting the march to the capitol. munn also wrote, our president has only asked two things from us. so far, number one, vote. number two, january 6th, 2021. tom munn then allegedly boasted about his involvement on facebook january 6th writing, wow, made it back to the hotel. have lots of pics and videos to follow. daughter kristi is identified in the criminal complaint as this woman with a blue trump 2020 flag draped across her bac