Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:11 PM TikTok / beccaboostanaccount Matthew Mazzocco was seen in this TikTok video which purports to show him participating the Capitol insurrection. The local man arrested on federal charges related to deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection will be tried in Washington D.C. instead of San Antonio. Matthew Carl Mazzocco s case will be handled in a federal court in the District of Columbia, where it was originally filed, his lawyer, Robbie Ward said Tuesday, according to the Mazzocco, 37, was set to appear that day in the San Antonio courtroom of U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard B. Farrer for preliminary hearings. However, the was waived for the change in venue, the paper reported.
Updated 10:50 p.m.
A San Antonio man who took part in the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month went before a federal judge Tuesday afternoon.
Matthew Mazzocco was arrested without incident on Sunday according to the FBI. He is one of nearly 100 people arrested and charged so far with crimes related to the Jan 6 assault. He is one of at least seven Texans identified by federal investigators.
Mazzocco clad in detention blues with a blue surgical mask appeared before Judge Henry Bemporad on Zoom.
The 37-year-old was charged with knowingly entering a restricted building and violent entry and disorderly conduct. The two misdemeanor charges come with a combined maximum penalty of one and a half years in prison and an additional year of supervised release as well as $105,000 in fines.
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San Antonio man charged in Capitol riot appears in federal court
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Matthew Carl Mazzocco, 37, of San Antonio, was charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.Courtesy/ Robbie Ward
A San Antonio man appeared for the first time in federal court Tuesday afternoon to hear charges against him in connection with the deadly U.S. Capitol riot that occurred on Jan. 6.
Wearing a dark shirt and blue face mask, Matthew Carl Mazzocco, 37, appeared via Zoom from a privately-run federal holding facility in Karnes County before U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry J. Bemporad in San Antonio.
Instead of a lump coal, they got three hots and a cot.
While it s hard to say how Kris Kringle will treat the following folks, the judges and the prosecutors will certainly have some work cut out for them, especially in Rowan County where the lock-ups were heavy over the weekend.
The following people were booked over the weekend. Anyone named in the locked up should be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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⢠Joseph L. Chidester, 39, of Greenup, was booked Friday on three contempt of court charges.
⢠Jonathon H. Mills, 34, of Ashland, was booked Saturday on charges of public intoxication and identity theft. Jail records also show Mills had two bench warrants.