Police charge Pelosi lectern suspect
More rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week were arrested and charged Saturday as additional video came out showing the chaos of the deadly mob.
By Saturday, prosecutors had filed 17 cases in federal district court and dozens of others in the District of Columbia Superior Court for a variety of offenses, ranging from assaulting police officers to entering restricted areas of the U.S. Capitol, stealing federal property and threatening lawmakers.
Among those arrested were the rioters seen carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern, a Republican legislator from West Virginia and the man who calls himself a QAnon shaman:
Derrick Evans, 35, of West Virginia, was charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol Grounds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said. Evans, recently elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates, resigned from his post Saturday.
Doug Jensen, a 41-year-old Des Moines, Iowa, man, was in custody in the Polk County Jail after his arrest by the FBI, Sgt. Ryan Evans of the Polk
County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. Jensen was identified in multiple videos and photographs at the Capitol on Wednesday wearing a “QAnon” T-shirt over a sweatshirt and a knit cap.
Adam Johnson, 36, of Parrish, Florida, was charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; one count of theft of government property; and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said. Authorities identified him as the man photographed carrying the lectern belonging to Pelosi, D-Calif. Johnson was being held in the Pinellas County jail Saturday, jail records show.
Jacob Anthony Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, of Arizona, was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said. Authorities identified him as wearing red-white-and-blue face paint with the horns and bearskin. Angeli is a QAnon supporter who has been a fixture at Arizona right-wing political rallies over the past year.
Sen. Mark Warner, the incoming chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked 11 telecommunication and social media companies on Saturday to preserve messaging data and subscriber information from the time of the attack.
Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger and House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving have all resigned amid calls for a investigation of how the police came to be so badly outnumbered.
Meanwhile, the FBI was looking for man who was captured by a Getty photographer roaming the U.S. Senate chamber with several pairs of zip-tie handcuffs. He was dressed head to toe in paramilitary gear.