INVESTIGATIONS Two Proud Boys Members Indicted In Attack On U.S. Capitol
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Two members of the far-right Proud Boys were indicted in federal court Friday. Both men face a slew of charges for their participation in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Two members of the far-right group the Proud Boys were indicted in federal court Friday for their participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Charges included obstructing an official proceeding and assaulting officers.
Dominic Pezzola, and William Pepe were both originally charged by criminal complaint and were arrested in mid-January. Both men were indicted in Washington, D.C. Friday on federal charges of conspiracy, civil disorder, unlawfully entering restricted buildings or grounds and disorderly and disruptive conduct in restricted buildings or grounds.
Pezzola faces additional charges; obstruction of an official proceeding; auxiliary counts of civil disorder, and aiding and abetting civil disorder; robbery of personal property of the United States; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; destruction of government property; and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds.
Pezzola is a former Marine. He spent six years in the infantry before being discharged as a corporal in 2005.
According to a criminal complaint affidavit, one witness said Pezzola bragged that he broke the windows of the Capitol with a police shield and then entered the building. The witness also told authorities Pezzola admitted that he would have killed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence, if given the chance.
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Two members of the far-right group the Proud Boys were indicted in federal court Friday for their participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Charges included obstructing an official proceeding and assaulting officers.
Both men were indicted in Washington, D.C. Friday on federal charges of conspiracy, civil disorder, unlawfully entering restricted buildings or grounds and disorderly and disruptive conduct in restricted buildings or grounds.
Pezzola faces additional charges; obstruction of an official proceeding; auxiliary counts of civil disorder, and aiding and abetting civil disorder; robbery of personal property of the United States; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; destruction of government property; and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds.
According to a criminal complaint affidavit, one witness said Pezzola bragged that he broke the windows of the Capitol with a police shield and then entered the building.
WTF? Committing a crime (well, several crimes actually)...then boasting about it! (I wonder if he was surprised when they came to arrest him...?)
No one ever accused them of being smart.
Pezzola is a former Marine. He spent six years in the infantry before being discharged as a corporal in 2005.
Pezzola admitted that he would have killed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence, if given the chance.