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Richard Barnett 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.
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 the death 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 reportedly hit 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 arrest and court.
“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 thin security was breached on Wednesday afternoon as hundreds charged the building after attending a rally where Donald Trump encouraged the group to go to the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election that he lost to Joe Biden.
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Richard Barnett is 60 years old.
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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, NBC reported.
A man photographed lounging with his foot on the desk 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.
Barnett recounted stealing an envelope from the Democratic House speaker’s desk.
“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.’”
He claimed that he was politely knocking on the door of Pelosi’s office when he was pushed in by other protesters. It was a story he knew no one would buy – “I’ll probably be telling them this is what happened all the way to the D.C. jail,” he said.
— Matthew Rosenberg (@AllMattNYT) January 6, 2021
Ken Kohl, a federal prosecutor, said Evans faces criminal charges after he apparently “recorded himself storming the Capitol”.
Barnett leads a pro-gun rights group in Arkansas and according to the Washington Post 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 sharing a video of the event.
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The mayor of Gravette said the photos have brought threats and other unwelcome attention to his small, rural community near the Missouri border.
“It’s a shame something like this is what puts you in the public eye,” Mayor Kurt Maddox said, according to NBC affiliate KNWA. “This is not the city of Gravette. This one person is not who Gravette is and not who the people are.”
Aides to Pelosi have said her office was vandalized on Wednesday, and confirmed that a laptop from a conference room had been stolen. The equipment, however, was used only for presentations, an aide said.
The FBI is requesting the public’s help in identifying other Trump supporters who unlawfully invaded the Capitol for about four hours, with investigators poring over surveillance footage and social media posts. But the vast majority of the hundreds of people who stormed the building were allowed to leave without getting arrested, making the task of tracking them down exceedingly difficult.
So far, dozens of arrests have been made, including 41 people who were at the Capitol grounds late Wednesday and early Thursday, according to D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department.