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This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldRichard Barnett will face federal charges, as will the West Virginia lawmaker Derrick EvansLast modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 15.28 ESTA man with his foot on the desk of a staff member in House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in Washington as part of a pro-Trump mob that breached security and rampaged through the US Capitol was arrested on Friday.Richard Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, was taken into custody in that state and, along with the West Virginia state representative Derrick Evans, who was also arrested, faces federal charges stemming from the siege of the Capitol on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said.Barnett was arrested on federal charges of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry and theft of public property, according to a Department of Justice official, .In addition, the acting US attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, announced that the FBI would team up with Washington DC’s metropolitan police department to investigate jointly of the Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, a military veteran from New Jersey.He died from injuries sustained while defending the Capitol, where he was in the head with a fire extinguisher.The FBI has issued appeals for the public’s help in identifying those who took part in the riot, who face .“Just because you’ve left the DC region, you can still expect a knock on the door if we find out you were part of the criminal activity at the Capitol,” said Steven D’Antuono, the FBI Washington field office’s assistant director in charge, at a telephone news briefing on Friday.Barnett spoke to a New York Times reporter shortly after storming Congress, where on Wednesday afternoon as hundreds after attending a rally where Donald Trump encouraged the group to go to the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election that he .Barnett recounted stealing an envelope from a desk in the Democratic House speaker’s office.“I didn’t steal it,” Barnett told the reporter. “I put a quarter [25c] on her desk, even though she ain’t fucking worth it, and I left her a note on her desk that says, ‘Nancy, Bigo [his nickname] was here, you bitch.’”Barnett leads a pro-gun rights group in Arkansas and according to had identified as a white nationalist in a Facebook post days before the riot took place.Derrick Evans, a newly elected Republican member of the West Virginia house of delegates, part of the state legislature, was taken into federal custody, with a reporter for the local NBC affiliate WSAZ of the event.On Wednesday, Evans reportedly filmed himself storming the Capitol, shouting: “We’re in! Keep it moving, baby!”Ken Kohl, a federal prosecutor, said Evans faces criminal charges after he apparently “recorded himself storming the Capitol”.

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldRichard Barnett will face federal charges, as will the West Virginia lawmaker Derrick EvansLast modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 15.28 ESTA man with his foot on the desk of a staff member in House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in Washington as part of a pro-Trump mob that breached security and rampaged through the US Capitol was arrested on Friday.Richard Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, was taken into custody in that state and, along with the West Virginia state representative Derrick Evans, who was also arrested, faces...

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