The United States Capitol Police (USCP) said an armed man who had entered the Capitol and Library of Congress was arrested on Tuesday. USCP said it received information about a man in the area with mental health issues and suicidal thoughts who was allegedly armed.
A Massachusetts man was arrested after authorities say he entered the United States Capitol and took a tour of the building with a handgun in his possession.
Several congressmen and women hosted former Capitol Police Officers following President Trump's decision to pardon Jan. 6 rioters.
The U.S. Secret Service and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police found the man in a Washington hotel early Tuesday morning and interviewed him, sources said. They searched for a gun and found no weapon and no further action was taken at that time, they said.
"I believe God used us for a greater good," January 6 rioter Joseph Fischer told Newsweek after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump.
The former assistant chief and acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police voiced concerns about January 6th defendants receiving pardons from the incoming president.
A man who entered the U.S. Capitol with a handgun in his possession and took a tour of the building faces weapons charges, police said Thursday.
WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 defendant has been rearrested on a firearm charge just one day after federal prosecutors moved to dismiss his Capitol riot case following President Donald Trump’s clemency order.
An El Paso man convicted in connection with the 2021 Capitol riot was released from prison after President Donald Trump's signed an executive order.
Accepting the pardon would be an insult to the Capitol Police officers, to the rule of law, to our nation,” said a woman who served time for the Jan. 6 riot.
Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
Michael Tyler Roberts: Roberts, of Knoxville, was sentenced in December to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to the felony charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. The DOJ says Roberts assaulted a line of police officers in a tunnel entrance to the Capitol.