CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man has been arrested on costs that he participated in violence in the course of the breach of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.
John Thomas Gordon, 47, of Bayard, is accused of repeatedly throwing a tough object at a Capitol door as cops tried to safe the constructing on the opposite aspect of the glass window, based on courtroom paperwork. Gordon allegedly additionally kicked the door with a purpose to acquire entry and yelled obscenities at officers.
Gordon was arrested Friday in Martinsburg. He’s charged in a prison criticism filed in Washington, D.C., with felony civil dysfunction and 5 misdemeanors, together with destruction of presidency property.
It wasn’t instantly identified whether or not Gordon has an legal professional who may touch upon the costs on his behalf.
Based on an announcement of info accompanying the charging paperwork, Gordon has head tattoos and was recognized by images on social media, photographs and movies of the Capitol rebellion. Gordon admitted to a West Virginia sheriff who carried out an interview of him at his house in March 2021 that he had been on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
In August 2021, an FBI particular agent interviewed somebody who had a romantic relationship with Gordon and was not recognized within the paperwork. That particular person confirmed it was Gordon within the FBI’s {photograph}, the assertion stated.
Greater than 830 individuals have been charged with federal crimes associated to the Capitol riot. Greater than 320 of them have pleaded responsible, principally to misdemeanor costs, and over 200 have been sentenced.
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