in a huge win for the justice department, a jury just found four members of the proud boys guilty of seditious conspiracy including the group s leader enrique tarrio. all of this related to their roles in the january 6th insurrection. baseless lies, the biden administration is blasting moscow s claim that the u.s. is somehow tied to yesterday s drone explosion near the kremlin. now russia is seeking revenge, even using drones itself to attack ukraine with the words for moscow written on them. we re live from the battlefield. and a mysterious illness, a detroit public school forced to shut down after reports of a spike in illnesses among young students stricken with flu-like symptoms. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. from insurrection to conviction, a major day for justice, coming two years and three months after the attack on the nation s capitol. some of the most serious offenders charged wit
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for the justice department in so many ways. this trial has been extremely long. there was an exceptional amount of effort put in to gather the evidence needed to bring the prosecution against these men. these members of the proud boys. and there were things that the justice department found in chats even among members of the proud boys that they were able to show to the jury so far to help secure these convictions, things like a message enrique tarrio, the leader of the proud boys, had sent to other proud boys on january 6th saying, make no mistake, we did this. that was a crucial piece of evidence in this case so far, and it did allow the jury to find tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy. he was not on the grounds of the capitol or even in washington, d.c., on january 6th, so that was quite a monumental thing for the justice department to be able to are prove in this case. but we are still waiting for that additional count. what happened with the other
guilty of seditious conspiracy for trying to forcibly stop the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election. after deliberating for more than seven days, the federal jury convicted ethan nordine joseph bigs, and most notably enrique tarrio of the charge. he was considered the ring leader of the group and was not in washington the day extremists invaded the capitol, incited by former president trump s lies that the election was stolen from him. cnn s sara sidner has been following this trial since it started several months ago. this capitol riot investigation has been huge with more than a thousand arrests. help us put these guilty verdicts into perspective today out of everything that s happened since that january 6th. this is a really big moment, particularly for the doj, but also for the country and those that experienced this fear of having their lives put in
little bit ago about consequences. renato underscored that point saying this really flies in the face that this is any argument that this is just a bunch of people that got together and happened to be at the capitol that day. this is a seditious conspiracy conviction for four of these people. this latest gentleman not guilty but guilty of so many other things. help us understand what this means for this moving forward and kind of zoom out if you can, because we re kind of getting down in the weeds a little bit, for people who are just tuning in, what does this mean? reporter: all right, so i ll sort of start with the reasons why perhaps a jury did not convict pezzola, the fifth defendant who faced seditious conspiracy charges. part of the reason may be because he was not in a leadership position. en enrique tarrio was then the president, if you will, the leader of the national organization of proud boys at that time, and then the others who were convicted held some kind of higher up
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