The Proud Boy’s Hawaii group founder Nicholas R. Ochs and associate Nicholas J. DeCarlo pleaded guilty for defacing the U.S. Capitol’s Memorial Door with the name of their collective.
Mr. Tarrio had planned to protest in Washington on the day the Capitol was stormed, but he was arrested shortly upon arriving in the city earlier in the week and subsequently ordered to leave town.
Speaking to the NBC station, Mr. Tarrio said that authorities “should have had the tools available to stop” the breach of the Capitol, which happened as members of Congress met inside the complex to count the electoral votes certifying President Biden to be the winner of the recent White House race.
“But now, because they didn’t stop it, now they have to answer to the Senate. And they need heads on a pike. And the Proud Boys aren’t just going to lay down and take it,” Mr. Tarrio told the station.
Nick Ochs, Hawaii Proud Boys founder, pleads not guilty in conspiracy case against Capitol invaders Follow Us
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Nicholas R. Ochs and Nicholas DeCarlo, co-defendants in a federal indictment charging them with conspiracy and other counts related to breaching the U.S. Capitol, entered not guilty pleas Friday.
Mr. Ochs, 30, and Mr. DeCarlo, 34, remain free on their own recognizance after they both pleaded not guilty to all seven counts included in the indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors last week.
In charging documents, the FBI included photographs showing Mr. Ochs and Mr. DeCarlo together both in and around the Capitol building during the violent storming of the complex that happened on Jan. 6.
NOTE: The main leader of the Proud Boys Tarrio, 33, was arrested Jan. 4 and charged with the misdemeanor of destruction of property for the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner outside a D.C. church in December and charged with felony counts of possessing two extended, empty gun magazines, each capable of holding 30 rounds of .223-caliber, AR-15-compatible ammunition. He pleaded not guilty. Several other members have been arrested according to DOJ.
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