(This story and its headlines have been updated to account for additional names.)

The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have arrested and prosecuted more than 1,450 Americans who took part in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Five people died as a result of the riot, including a U.S. Capitol police officer. Four law enforcement officers who responded to the riots took their own lives within seven months of the attack.

Now, President-elect Donald Trump, who had faced four federal charges brought by a grand jury indictment for his own alleged role in attempting to subvert the results of the 2020 election, is poised to pardon those defendants when he takes office Jan. 20.

In a Dec. 8 interview with NBC, Trump said he would begin pardoning people involved in the Capitol riot, which followed a "Stop the Steal" rally at which Trump spoke, on his first day in office.

If Trump makes good on his statements, 90 Pennsylvanians, including members of the Proud Boys, could be cleared for their crimes on Jan. 6, 2021, which include such conduct as pepper-spraying and attacking law enforcement officers who attempted to prevent the breach of the U.S. Capitol as members of Congress were certifying presidential election results.

Several people convicted for their crimes on Jan. 6 are already appealing one specific charge — obstructing an official proceeding — as the result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case brought by one of more than 90 codefendants, Joseph Fischer, a former Lebanon County police officer who appealed his obstruction charge.

Among those Pennsylvania residents who have been arrested, convicted and sentenced are

• Zach Rehl, the president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, who was seen on video leading a crowd of about 100 people toward the Capitol building. Other Proud Boys were arrested as well;
• Julian Khater, of State College, who was charged with conspiracy to injure an officer after allegedly unloading a spray can on police officers, including Brian Sicknick, who died the following day;
• Rachel Powell, a mother of eight living in rural Mercer County, known for her bullhorn and the massive pole she allegedly helped to push through a Capitol window. That pole and an ice axe she allegedly carried were called “dangerous or deadly weapons” by a grand jury that leveled more charges against her;
• L. Brent Bozell IV, the son and grandson of conservative activists, who was seen on video footage inside the U.S. Senate during the insurrection. He is also from Lebanon County; and
• Riley June Williams, of Harrisburg, who allegedly stole then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop. A jury declined to convict her on charges related to the alleged theft due to a lack of evidence. Williams had bragged about the alleged theft in a social media post.  

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Who they are: The Pennsylvania residents arrested for involvement in Capitol insurrection

Thomas Carey

Charges: Entering a restricted building; intending to disrupt or impede the orderly conduct of government business through disorderly conduct within a restricted building; disorderly conduct; and parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol.

Background: Carey, of Pittsburgh, went inside the Capitol with four other men, all who walked through the building and entered Pelosi's office, according to the FBI. His group of five eventually went outside, and one of the men ― not Carey ― was later accused of becoming violent with news media and a law enforcement officer, a criminal complaint states.

Adjudication: Carey, who was 22 at the time of his sentencing and had recently graduated college, pleaded guilty Dec. 21, 2022, to parading, demonstrating or picketing in any of the Capitol buildings. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Carey on June 6, 2023, to 14 days intermittent confinement and 36 months of probation and ordered him to pay $500 in restitution.

James Douglas Rahm Jr.

Charges: A grand jury indicted James Douglas Rahm Jr. of obstruction of an official proceeding; entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in the Capitol, and demonstrating inside the Capitol.

Background: Rahm, of Philadelphia, and his son, James Douglas Rahm III, of New Jersey, traveled to Washington, D.C., to see the rally led by then-President Donald Trump. When they couldn’t get in, they went to the Capitol, where they eventually split up. Rahm Jr. posted a photo to Facebook of the Capitol building, writing without punctuation, “They’re in there counting the electoral votes we have the building surrounded we’re ready to make a breach and take our Capitol back,” according to the FBI. Later, when the rioting started, he yelled to the crowd, “I think we stopped the vote,” drawing cheers. According to his charging documents, Rahm Jr. entered the Capitol through the East Rotunda doors, carrying a flag. He filmed another video in which he loudly declared, “we’re in. We’re taking our (profanity) house back. We’re here.” 

Adjudication: Rahm, 63, was found guilty on Oct. 13, 2022, of obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony, and four related misdemeanor offenses: parading, demonstrating or picketing in any of the Capitol buildings; disorderly conduct in the Capitol; disorderly conduct in a restricted building, and entering and remaining in a restricted building. Judge Thomas F. Hogan returned the verdict after a trial. Hogan on Jan. 18, 2023, sentenced Rahm Jr. to 12 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release. He also ordered Rahm Jr. to pay $2,000 restitution, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

James Robinson

Charges: Entering a restricted building, intending to impede the orderly conduct of government; disorderly conduct inside the Capitol, and parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol.

Background: Robinson, a machinist and martial arts instructor from Schwenksville, attended the Trump rally then went toward the Capitol with others in his traveling group. He stopped to eat several blocks from the Capitol and split from his group, then he heard cries for help, so he walked to the Capitol and told the FBI he was swept into the building with others. He told the FBI he went inside to help anyone who may be hurt; however, the FBI have videotapes of Robinson walking around the rotunda in circles, pumping his fists and high-fiving other people who entered the building, according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

Adjudication: Judge Dabney Friedrich sentenced Robinson, who was 61 at the time of his sentencing, on May 9, 2023, to six months incarceration and ordered him to pay $500 restitution.

Samuel Fontanez Rodriguez

Charges: Entering a restricted building; intending to disrupt the orderly conduct of government; disorderly conduct in the Capitol, and and parading or demonstrating in the Capitol.

Background: Rodriguez, of Emmaus, called the FBI to say he had been inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, and when interviewed later he couldn’t remember what he had done inside, according to the criminal complaint filed against him. Photos of him and another Pennsylvania man, Jackson Kostolsky, show them in and near the Capitol that day. In one photo, they posed in front of a Black Lives Matter sign to look like George Floyd and police officer Derek Chauvin in the last moments of Floyd’s life. Kostolsky has pleaded guilty for entering the Capitol and was sentenced to probation.

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Adjudication: On Feb. 2, 2023, Judge Jia M. Cobb sentenced Rodriguez, who was 34 at the time, to 12 months probation and ordered him to complete 50 hours of community service and pay $500 restitution.

Edward Mikhail Slye

Charges: Assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers; interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder; entering a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in the Capitol building; act of violence at the Capitol, and parading or demonstrating in the Capitol.

Background: Slye, of Meadville, who was 32 at the time of the rally, became known as #JackTheTripper by online sleuths trying to piece together videos and photographs taken at the Capitol on Jan. 6 in order to help the FBI’s investigations. The nickname comes from the incident for which he faced two felony charges involving law enforcement. He threw a bike rack in front of a police officer outside the Capitol as the officer ran to help his fellow officers, according to the FBI. The man tripped over the bike rack and fell down a set of stairs. Slye also paraded around the inside of the Capitol, according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

Adjudication: U.S. District Chief Judge James Boasberg dismissed the original seven-count indictment and imposed a sentence on June 15, 2023, on a single-count superseding indictment of assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers. Boasberg sentenced Slye to 30 months in prison and 18 months' probation, and ordered him to pay $2,000 restitution.

Brian Korte, Lynwood Nester, Michael Pomeroy

Charges: Entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct and attempting to impede government business.

Background: Korte, a plumber from York Haven; Nester, an employee of an archery store from Dillsburg; and Pomeroy, a retired handyman from Carlisle, walked through the Capitol after joining the rally for Trump. The three men are members of a political group called FreePA, according to the FBI. Nester was elected by Monaghan Township voters in the 2022 primary election for the York County Republican Committee.

Adjudication: Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced Pomeroy, who was 52 at the time, on May 8, 2023, and Korte on July 12, 2023, to jail time and ordered each to pay $500 restitution. Korte, who was 67 at the time of his sentencing, was sentenced to 21 days incarceration and Pomeroy was given a 30-day sentence. On July 19, 2024, Chutkan, following a jury trial, sentenced Nester, then 57, to 10 months incarceration, followed by 12 months of supervised release. Nester was also ordered to pay a $500 fine and $500 restitution. Nester appealed his conviction on Aug. 1, 2024.

Carson Lucard

Charges: Parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

Background: Lucard, of Norristown, first entered the Capitol alone and lingered for around 15 minutes, according to a statement of offense he signed as part of a plea agreement with federal officials. The second time he went into the Capitol, he entered with a friend who had traveled with him for the rally. He went into U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley’s office, then took a selfie with his friend, Brian Stenz, in the Crypt. Documents state he was in the building for a total of about 23 minutes. Stenz was charged in May 2021.

Adjudication: Lucard pleaded guilty March 25, 2022, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced June, 24, 2022, to 36 months’ probation with 21 days intermittent confinement, 60 days of home detention, and $500 in restitution.

Brian Stenz

Charges: Entering a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; violent entry or disorderly conduct, and parading or demonstrating in the Capitol.

Background: Brian Stenz, an employee at a paving company from East Norriton, allegedly texted a photo of himself inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 to a friend, and the friend sent it to a Montgomery County police department. When the FBI interviewed Stenz, he admitted to being inside the Capitol for a short period of time, according to the criminal affidavit filed against him by the FBI.

Adjudication: Stenz pleaded guilty on Nov. 12, 2021, to parading and demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced Feb. 17, 2022, to 36 months of probation, including 14 consecutive days of incarceration and two months of home detention, a $2,500 fine and $500 in restitution.

Melanie M. (Archer) Lanham and Jordan Bonenberger

Charges: Entering a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in the Capitol, and demonstrating inside the Capitol.

Background: When contacted by the FBI, Melanie M. (Archer) Lanham, whose last name was Archer at the time of her arrest, and Jordan Bonenberger, both from the Pittsburgh area, declined to be interviewed by law enforcement. Numerous photos of them show their movements through the Capitol, and a witness identified them in most of the photographs, according to the criminal complaint filed against them. Lanham told people she was inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to the complaint. When the FBI initially visited Bonenberger, a U.S. Marine Corps Reserves veteran, he allowed agents into his home, then refused to be interviewed.

Adjudication: In 2022, Lanham and Bonenberger each pleaded guilty to the charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing inside the Capitol. Judge John D. Bates sentenced Lanham, a small business owner who was 43 at the time, on Feb. 9, 2023, and Bonenberger on Sept. 5, 2023, to 18 months' probation and ordered each to complete 50 hours of community service and pay $500 in restitution. Bonenberger's sentence also included a $2,000 fine. He was 27 at the time of sentencing.

Zach Rehl

Charges: In charging documents, Zach Rehl is named along with three other Proud Boys members for committing the following crimes: Seditious conspiracy; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of an official proceeding; conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement from their duties; obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder; destruction of federal property; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers, and robbery of U.S. property.

Background: Zach Rehl, the president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, was charged, along with three others, for conspiring to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, using radios to communicate with others that day, according to their arrest documents. On Nov. 27, 2020, Rehl posted this on social media, according to the FBI: “Hopefully the firing squads are for the traitors that are trying to steal the election from the American people.”

On Dec. 30, 2020, Rehl posted a fundraising campaign to collect money called “Travel Expenses for Upcoming Patriot Events.” According to the FBI, it raised $5,500 by Jan. 4, 2021. He and other Proud Boys leaders were among 60 people using an encrypted messaging channel to plan their trip to D.C.

Rehl, a former Marine and the son and grandson of Philadelphia police officers, was arrested at his home in Port Richmond, a Philadelphia neighborhood, according to the Inquirer. He is one of several Proud Boys to be arrested for involvement in the insurrection.

Adjudication: On Aug. 31, 2023, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly handed down the second-longest prison sentence of anyone convicted of crimes on Jan. 6 to Rehl, ordering him to spend 15 years in federal prison, which was half the time prosecutors had recommended. Rehl will also be on three years of supervised release once he finishes his prison sentence.

Isaiah Giddings, Brian Healion, Freedom Vy,

Charges: Unlawful entry on restricted buildings or grounds; violent entry; and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Background: Healion, a grocery store manager from Upper Darby; Vy, a self-employed subcontractor from Philadelphia; and Isaiah Giddings, of Philadelphia, allegedly attended the insurrection at the Capitol as members of the Proud Boys and broke into the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon. Helping to lead the Proud Boys that day was Rehl, who appears in several photos with the other three men. In those photos, the men make a gesture with three fingers up. The Anti-Defamation League calls the gesture a “hoax.” Giddings had also attended Proud Boys demonstrations in Washington, D.C., in November and December 2020 over the election. Because Proud Boys had become aggressors in some altercations with anti-fascist, or Antifa members at these rallies, Giddings, at the December event, pretended to knock out an Antifa member to avoid being chastised by other mem,bers, according to court documents.

Adjudication: Giddings, who was 29 at the time of his arrest, pleaded guilty Dec. 1, 2022, to disorderly conduct in a restricted building or on Capitol grounds. He has been cooperating with prosecutors in other Capitol riot cases, and his sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 27.

Healion pleaded guilty to civil disorder on July 12, 2023, and Judge Timothy Kelly on July 2, 2024, sentenced him to 100 days in prison followed by 36 months of supervised release. Healion was 33 at the time of sentencing. Kelly also ordered him to pay $2,000 restitution.

Vy was 39 when in June he pleaded guilty to a charge of entering and remaining in a restricted building. The son of Vietnamese refugees, he was sentenced by Kelly on Sept. 25, 2024, to 50 days in prison and 12 months of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a $500 fine and another $500 in restitution.

Michael Gianos and Rachel Myers

Charges: Entering a restricted building or grounds; violent entry; and disorderly conduct.

Background: The FBI said that Gianos, a day trader from Philadelphia, along with Larry Stackhouse, of New Jersey, and Rachel Myers, a bartender from Philadelphia, entered an office in Pelosi’s suite for about a minute. Gianos, who joined the Proud Boys group and wore a Proud Boys sweatshirt on the day of the riot, later messaged someone that he had “stormed” Pelosi’s office. In late December 2020, Gianos messaged a Proud Boys member, Zach Rehl, who was the leader of the Philadelphia chapter, about becoming a member and said he would be "ready for whatever ya need" at the rally.

Adjudication: Myers, who was 31 when she was sentenced, pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol building. She was sentenced to 24 months of probation and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. Gianos, who was 35 at the time of his sentencing, reached an agreement in which he pleaded guilty to the charge of entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds and was sentenced on July 25, 2023, to two years of supervised release and 30 days of home detention.

Howard Charles Richardson

Charges: Engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; and disorderly conduct.

Background: Richardson, of King of Prussia, allegedly yelled, “Here it comes,” before hitting a Metropolitan Police Department officer three times with a metal flagpole, until the pole broke. The officer was near the bicycle rack barricades outside the Capitol. Federal prosecutors also say he helped other rioters shove a large metal-framed sign toward police officers in an attempt to break through a line of bike-rack barriers. When he was interviewed by police, Richardson said, “I’m not saying this is the best behavior I could have done here.” He surrendered in Philadelphia.

Adjudication: Richardson pleaded guilty on April 27, 2022, to assaulting and resisting law enforcement. Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Richardson on Aug. 26, 2022, to 46 months in prison followed by 36 months of probation. He was also ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Michael James Dickinson

Charges: Assaulting, resisting or impeding certain police officers; civil disorder; entering a restricted building; impeding or disrupting the orderly conduct of government; engaging in an act of violence inside a restricted building; engaging in an act of violence inside the Capitol, and disorderly conduct inside the Capitol.

Background: Dickinson, a Philadelphia resident who worked as a screen printer for athletic apparel, was allegedly seen on video footage inside the U.S. Capitol throwing items — a coffee tumbler and, later, a bucket filled with liquid — at police officers, according to the FBI.

Adjudication: Dickinson, who was 30 at the time of his arrest, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers. He was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2023, to 20 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. 

Marshall Neefe

Charges: Assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers while using a dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; physical violence inside the Capitol building, and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.

Background: In Facebook messages before that day, Neefe, of Newville, wrote to Charles Bradford Smith: “Im getting ready to storm D.C.” Regarding Jan. 6, he said: “We goin? … Cause hot damn son I really wanna crack some commie skulls,” according to FBI court documents. During the rioting Jan. 6, Neefe carried a wooden club, which he nicknamed the "Commie Knocker," and joined others as they hoisted a large metal sign frame into a line of Metropolitan Police Department officers, according to an FBI news release and court documents.

Prosecutors say Neefe and Smith repeatedly "spoke favorably of fascism, Nazism, and the possibility of civil war in the United States" in Facebook conversations leading up to the Capitol riots.

Adjudication: Neefe, then 25, pleaded guilty on May 3, 2022, to charges of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. He was sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release. 

Charles Bradford Smith

Charges: He was indicted on charges including assaulting a law enforcement officer; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.

Background: Smith, also known as Brad Smith, of Shippensburg, went to the Jan. 6 riot with Marshall Neefe of Newville. Before that day, the two discussed on social media taking “batons” with them, and Smith messaged another Facebook user that he had obtained a military-style knife that he planned to take to D.C. On Jan. 5, he wrote on another Facebook user’s post, according to the FBI: “Sacrifice the Senate!!!!!”

Adjudication: Smith, who was 25 at the time of his sentencing, pleaded guilty on June 23, 2022, to assaulting law enforcement officers and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. He was sentenced to 41 months in prison.

Kelly O’Brien

Charges: Entering a restricted building, intending to impede or disrupt official government business and disorderly or disruptive conduct in the Capitol.

Background: In the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, O’Brien, of North Whitehall Township, posted many messages like this one on social media, dated Dec. 19, 2020, according to the FBI: “WE ARE IN A BATTLE between GOOD and evil. Make no mistake about that. Elders are cheering us on and believe that WE ARE GOING TO BE THE GREATEST GENERATION in their lifetime. And they lived through WWII. Are you going to fight or are you weak. Let us know now. WE NEED PATRIOTS! WE NEED FREEDOM FIGHTERS! Now!” After entering the Capitol Jan. 6, O'Brien followed other rioters to the Crypt and from there to Pelosi's office, which she entered briefly. On her way out, she cheered and rubbed the head of another rioter who broke a sign that identified the speaker's office suite.

Adjudication: O’Brien, who was 49 at the time of her sentencing, pleaded guilty on Jan. 5, 2022, to entering and remaining in a restricted building. She was sentenced April 6, 2022, to 90 days of prison, 12 months of supervised release, $500 in restitution and a $1,000 fine.

Julia Jeanette Sizer

Charges: Entering a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in the Capitol, and parading or demonstrating in the Capitol.

Background: Sizer, of Ellwood City, initially told the FBI she hadn’t been in the Capitol, after federal investigators were provided with a video of her there. Later, with her lawyer present, she admitted to being inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, and the FBI confirmed seeing her on Capitol security footage. She entered the building about 8 minutes after it was breached, and she remained in the foyer area for 3 minutes before leaving the building, the FBI stated in her arrest documents. 

Adjudication: Sizer, a mother of three and a stepmother to another child, was 39 at the time of her sentencing. She pleaded guilty on Nov. 4, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. She was sentenced Feb. 1, 2022, to one year of probation, a $2,000 fine and $500 in restitution.

Brian Sizer

Charges: Knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Background: Sizer, who at the time of the riot was a maintenance supervisor for Ellwood Quality Steel, was accused of entering the Capitol with his wife, Julia, for a few minutes. The two allegedly took a selfie together and remained inside the building for about 6 minutes, at one point entering an office for about a minute.

Adjudication: Sizer, who was 47 at the time of his arrest, was sentenced to 12 months of probation and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

Deborah Lee

Charges: Entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

Background: Lee, of Olyphant, was allegedly part of a crowd that “forcefully pushed back” a line of police officers inside the Capitol, near the House chamber. She was with Michael Joseph Rusyn, also of Lackawanna County, who was arrested by the FBI on similar charges. The FBI found private messages on Lee’s Facebook account saying, in part: “I broke into congress and there were guns on us” and “It’s our house. Our capital. We had every right to occupy.”

Adjudication: On Oct. 16, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui, following a non-jury trial, found Lee, who is now 58, guilty of the four misdemeanors, according to WVIA. WVIA also reported that on Aug. 2, Lee's birthday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson dropped, at the request of prosecutors, a felony charge against Lee of obstructing an official proceeding and aiding and abetting. The charge carried a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. Lee is scheduled for sentencing Jan. 27.

Edward McAlanis

Charges: Entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

Background: McAlanis, a father of three from Stevens who had been employed in various sales-related jobs over the course of 10 years, according to court documents, shared photos with friends of himself inside the Capitol, including a photo of him standing beside a statue of President Abraham Lincoln. After a tip from a family friend of McAlanis and his wife, the FBI located him on surveillance video walking through the building and looking around.

Adjudication: McAlanis, who will be 45 Jan. 7, originally pleaded not guilty to all counts on Aug. 27, 2021, but later pleaded guilty to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced Feb. 15, 2022, to two years of probation, including 60 hours of community service and $500 in restitution.

Samuel Lazar

Charges: Assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers; civil disorder; obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building; act of violence in a restricted building, and entering or remaining in a restricted building with a deadly weapon.

Background: Lazar, of Ephrata, was seen on video aiming a cannister of what the FBI believes was chemical irritant at police officers lined up at a police barricade in front of the Capitol. Police responded by telling him to “get back,” then sprayed a chemical at him. He retreated, the FBI said, then returned to spray two more officers; one of those officers temporarily lost his vision at that point, court records state. Lazar also encouraged other rioters to take officers' guns.

Adjudication: According to the Associated Press, Lazar cooperated with law enforcement on both the Jan. 6 case and an unrelated criminal case. NBC News reported that Lazar provided information not only about other rioters but also a separate federal criminal defendant charged with murder. In a secret proceeding in March 2023, Lazar agreed to plead guilty to a charge of assaulting officers using a dangerous weapon. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison on March 17, 2023. Lazar had been behind bars since July 2021. Lazar was released in September 2023. At the time, he was 37. It was not until after completing his sentence that court documents about Lazar's conviction and sentence were made public. According to the Associated Press, a "coalition" of news organizations pushed for the release of court records in Lazar's case.

Alan William Byerly

Charges: Assault on a federal officer; obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder; entering a restricted building; violent entry and disorderly conduct in a restricted building, and assault.

Background: With a taser in hand, Byerly, a father of four from Fleetwood, charged at several police officers outside the Capitol, the FBI said in a criminal complaint. About 2 p.m. Jan. 6, law enforcement had formed a line of bicycle racks at the Lower West Terrace to use as a barrier between them and the crowd. As Byerly charged toward the line “seemingly unprovoked,” several police officers yelled, “Taser, taser, taser,” to warn others, the FBI stated. Law enforcement restrained him and took the taser, but he continued to attack officers, the FBI stated. At one point, he tried to take an officer’s baton, caused one officer to fall to the ground, then, helped by another rioter, Byerly fled, according to the FBI. Prior to that, Byerly was caught on video assaulting a journalist, dragging, pushing and hitting him, according to the FBI.

Adjudication: Byerly, who was 55 at the time of his sentencing, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding an officer and striking, beating or wounding. He was sentenced Oct. 21, 2022, to 34 months of prison time and 36 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. 

Sandra Pomeroy Weyer

Charges: Obstruction of an official proceeding; disorderly and disruptive conduct; parading and demonstrating, and violent entry into the U.S. Capitol. 

Background: Weyer, of Mechanicsburg, allegedly videotaped the assault on a New York Times journalist, who is heard screaming on the video for about 10 seconds in an East Rotunda stairwell. The people assaulting her had taken her camera, and as she attempted to retrieve it, Weyer allegedly yelled, “(expletive) traitor, get the (expletive) out” and “Get her out, mace her,” as the woman descended the stairs, according to FBI documents. 

Adjudication: Weyer, who was 60 at the time of her sentencing, was ordered to spend 14 months in prison, followed by 12 months of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $500 restitution.

Nicholas J. Perretta 

Charges: Entering a restricted building; disorderly conduct inside the Capitol; disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; theft of government property, and parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol.

Background: Peretta, a Beaver County resident, told the FBI he and Mitchell Paul Vukich traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the rally, then walked to the Capitol, past the barriers and police officers, one of whom was knocked down in front of Peretta. He was hit with tear gas, he told the FBI, then inside the Capitol, he and Vukich took what he described as “three-month-old Congressional papers,” which they later threw away outside the building.

Adjudication: Perretta pleaded guilty Sept. 15, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced Jan. 5, 2022, to 30 days in prison and $500 in restitution.

Mitchell Paul Vukich

Charges: Entering a restricted building; disorderly conduct inside the Capitol; disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; theft of government property, and parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol.

Background: Vukich, a Beaver County resident, posted a message on Twitter at 3:15 p.m. Jan. 6 that said, “I was one of the first 15 people in the #Capitol. Wild stuff. Be safe out there.” And later that evening, he tweeted: “A lot of people have opinions on an event they did not witness. #USCapitol,” according to the FBI’s criminal complaint.

Adjudication: Vukich pleaded guilty Sept. 15, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced Jan. 5, 2022, to 30 days in prison and $500 in restitution.

Samuel Christopher Fox

Charges: Entering a restricted building; disorderly conduct inside the Capitol; violent entry into the Capitol, and parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol.

Background: A friend of Fox, a Westmoreland County resident, tipped the FBI to a Facebook post of Fox at the insurrection. His post reads, in part: “All the lefties pissing and moaning right now can take comfort in the fact we walked into a building that was ours instead of using politics to loot stores.”

Adjudication: He pleaded guilty Nov. 5, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced April 5, 2022, to 36 months of probation, including 60 days home detention, a $2,500 fine, and $500 in restitution.

Robert Morss

Charges: Assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; civil disorder, robbery of U.S. personal property; and obstruction of an official proceeding. He pleaded not guilty to all counts against him in his arraignment.

Background: Morss, a former Army Ranger who was working as a Pittsburgh high school history teacher at the time of the riot, faced serious charges for his alleged involvement in the attack, including a violation that carried a maximum 20-year sentence: assaulting, resisting or impeding police. In a 28-page arrest warrant affidavit, the FBI said Morss pushed past Capitol and Maryland police officers and organized a wall of police shields, taken from police that day, to violently attack officers, according to the FBI. At one point, he is heard saying to officers, “You guys are betraying us. You get paid enough to betray your people?” Then: “This is our Capitol. This is our Capitol,” according to the FBI.

Adjudication: Morss was found guilty by a judge on Aug. 23, 2022, of obstruction of an official proceeding; assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon; and robbery. He was sentenced May 24, 2023, to 66 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. 

Brian Gundersen

Charges: Impeding an official proceeding of Congress; assaulting, impeding or resisting police officers; entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in the Capitol; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building; act of physical violence in the Capitol; and parading, demonstrating or picketing inside the Capitol.

Background: Several people from Gundersen’s hometown in Armonk, New York, recognized him from photos taken inside the U.S. Capitol, wearing his high school jacket. In his first interview with the FBI, Gundersen said he wasn’t inside the Capitol that day. In messages on his phone a day earlier, he said he and others might “bum rush” the White House and “take it over,” according to the FBI. And on Jan. 8, he wrote in a message, “We all stormed the us capital and tried to take over the government,” his arrest document states. He was living in State College at the time of his arrest.

Gundersen entered the Capitol through the Parliamentarian door after he’d spent several minutes shouting at police officers through a window, according to federal documents. Once inside, he went inside the office of the Senate Parliamentarian, where rioters were scattering papers on the ground, wrecking furniture and stealing. While there, he picked up a notepad and scrawled, “sowwy for the damage,” along with a crying emoticon. 

Later, outside the Capitol, Gundersen joined a group that was confronting police, charging at and hitting one particular D.C. officer. After another officer pushed Gundersen away, he beat his chest with his first, according to authorities. He posted afterward on social media that he and other rioters “tried to take over the government” but had failed.

Adjudication: After a bench trial, Gundersen was found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers. He was sentenced July 25, 2023, to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. 

However, he appealed his conviction in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limited the application of federal laws against obstructing an official proceeding. The conviction on that charge was vacated, and Gundersen is scheduled to be resentenced Jan. 29.

Leonard Pearson Ridge IV

Charges: Obstructing an official proceeding; entering and remaining in a restricted building; parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol, and disorderly conduct.

Background: Ridge, then 19, of Lower Southampton, was arrested following multiple tips made to the FBI. Ridge allegedly sent a Snapchat video to friends that chronicled his storming of the Capitol Building. Authorities say pictures and video show Ridge outside the Capitol steps and going into the rotunda. Ridge allegedly told friends days later on Snapchat, “Just pray for me that I don’t get arrested by the fbi (sic).” Witnesses who saw the video tipped off the FBI, and a months-long investigation ended with Ridge’s arrest in May 2021.

Adjudication: He pleaded guilty Oct. 1, 2021, to entering and remaining in a restricted building. He was sentenced Jan. 4, 2022, to 14 days of prison, one year of supervised release, a $1,000 fine and $500 in restitution. 

Pauline Bauer

Charges: Obstruction of an official proceeding; entering a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in the Capitol and parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol.

Background: Bauer, of Kane, allegedly forced her way into the Capitol on Jan. 6, demanding that Pelosi and other lawmakers be handed over to insurrectionists, shouting: “Bring them out now. They’re criminals. They need to hang.” According to the FBI, Bauer went on to tell police officers barring her entrance to a hallway: “Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that (expletive) bitch. Bring her out. We’re coming in if you don’t bring her out. What are you trying to do, protect a (expletive) Nazi?”

Adjudication: Bauer was found guilty of all charges in a trial before a judge. She was sentenced May 30, 2023, to 27 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. 

William Blauser

Charges: Entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct in a restricted building, and violent entry.

Background: One person who provided a tip to the FBI said Blauser was taking videos at the Capitol and shared them in the Kane community, where he and Pauline Bauer both live, according to the FBI. Entering the building, at least three police officers attempted to stop crowds from coming inside, and Blauser allegedly walked backwards to push his way through the door, according to the FBI.

Adjudication: Blauser pleaded guilty Nov. 15, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced Feb. 3, 3022, to paying a $500 fine and $500 in restitution.

Gary Wickersham

Charges: Violent entry into a restricted building and disorderly conduct inside a restricted building.

Background: Wickersham, 80, of West Chester, is among the oldest people to be arrested for Capitol rioting. He admitted to being inside the Capitol but had two contradicting theories about the insurrection, calling it the work of Antifa protesters and also describing the battle between law enforcement and protesters inside the Capitol as staged, according to the FBI’s charging documents.

Adjudication: Wickersham pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced Dec. 21, 2021, to 36 months' probation, including 90 days of home detention, a $2,000 fine, and $500 in restitution. 

Gary Edwards

Charges: Entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct and disruption of official government business.

Background: A tip about Edwards, of Churchville, came from someone who saw Edwards’ wife defend her husband on Facebook. In one post, she said her husband entered the Capitol and walked around carrying an American flag. “The people san[g] the Star spangled banner 2 time then started chanting whose house? Our house! When asked to leave they did. ... These were people who watched their rights being taken away, their votes stolen from them,” she wrote, according to charging documents. Those Facebook posts were later deleted.

Adjudication: Edwards pleaded guilty Sept. 27, 2021, to parading and demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced on Dec. 20, 2021, to one year of probation, including 200 hours of community service, a $2,500 fine and $500 in restitution.

Anthony Richard Moat

Charges: Entering and remaining in a restricted building unlawfully; disorderly and disruptive behavior in a restricted building; and violent entry and disorderly conduct in a restricted building.

Background: Moat sent the FBI a video he had taken on his phone while inside the Capitol, surrendering to federal authorities in Philadelphia on April 9, 2021, after the FBI corroborated his story, according to federal documents.

Adjudication: Moat pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol building. He was sentenced Jan. 27, 2023, to 10 days of imprisonment and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

Michael Joseph Rusyn

Charges: Entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in the Capitol; parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol.

Background: Rusyn, of Lackawanna County, joined a group outside the chambers of the House of Representatives, demanding police officers move away to allow them inside, according to his criminal complaint. The crowd was heard shouting, “Tell Pelosi we’re coming for that b—-,” “Stop the steal,” and “We want Trump.” The crowd grew and eventually surged forward, pushing the officers away and entering the hallway just outside the House chambers. They were stopped again and didn’t breach the doors, according to the FBI.

Adjudication: Rusyn pleaded guilty Sept. 13, 2021, to parading and demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced Jan. 11, 2022, to 24 months of probation, including 60 days of home confinement, a $2,000 fine and $500 in restitution. 

Jeremy J. Vorous

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol ground and obstruction of any official proceeding. He pleaded not guilty on April 20, 2021, to all counts.

Background: Vorous, 43, of Venango, Crawford County, shared social media posts from inside the Capitol. He is seen in the “Capitol Crypt in front of the bust of Abraham Lincoln saying, ‘Does that look staged to you I promise the beanbags were real the mase is still burning on me aft a shower and 6hrs, the gas was real the flash grenades were also real the dead girl was 10ft from me,'” according to the FBI’s criminal complaint.

2021: Crawford County man charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riots

In the photo, according to the complaint, Vorous is depicted wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt with “NOT TODAY LIBERAL” in white letters on the front and holding a red, white and blue cowboy-style hat.

Adjudication: Vorous, 46, underwent a psychological exam as part of a request by his attorney for a competency hearing. However, the request was withdrawn after the exam found that Vorous' "mental health condition did not render him incompetent to stand trial." The request had delayed a trial. Pretrial materials must be filed by Jan. 12. A trial date has not been set.

On Sept. 6, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras dismissed the obstruction of an official proceeding charge at the request of the defense as a result of the Supreme Court's Fischer v. United States ruling.

Frank Scavo

Charges: Knowingly entering a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; violent entry and disorderly conduct in the Capitol; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol.

Background: Scavo, of Old Forge, turned himself in to federal authorities March 25, 2021, for charges that he entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He is a former school director who ran as a Republican candidate for the state Senate in 2018 and in a special election for the state House in 2019. He lost both times.

Before the rally on Jan. 6, Scavo said he would be taking a bus of Trump supporters to Washington, D.C. After the rally, he told WNEP-TV that he did not go into the Capitol with hundreds of other rioters that day, but photos and videos allegedly show Scavo in the crowd.

Adjudication: Scavo pleaded guilty on Sept. 8, 2021, to parading and demonstrating inside the Capitol. On Nov. 22, he was sentenced to 60 days in prison, a $5,000 fine and $500 in restitution

Philip C. Vogel II and Debra J. Maimone

Charges: Aiding and abetting theft of property; knowingly entering a restricted building; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Background: Vogel and Maimone, both of the New Castle area, are seen on video rummaging through a bag marked "police" on Jan. 6 inside the Capitol and taking out silver packages the FBI have identified as “escape hoods,” which protect the wearers from chemical and biological agents and nuclear particles for a short period of time, the FBI wrote in criminal complaints filed against the couple. In a video, Maimone is seen pulling down her American flag mask at one point to say, “It’s amazing,” according to the criminal complaints. Vogel, the alleged videographer, said in response, “Put your mask on. I don’t want them to see you.” Vogel and Maimone manage a general contracting and cleaning business in western Pennsylvania.

Adjudication: Vogel was sentenced to 30 days in prison, two years of supervised released and ordered to pay $1,806 in restitution. Maimone was sentenced to two years of supervised release and $1,806 in restitution.

Jennifer Heinl

Charges: Violently entering a restricted building; entering or remaining in a restricted building; intending to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government business; parading or demonstrating inside a restricted building; and disorderly conduct.

Background: Heinl was seen on video inside the rotunda talking with Kenneth Grayson, an Allegheny County man who was arrested on several charges related to the insurrection. Heinl initially denied being with Grayson that day, but the FBI found video evidence that tied her to him and their entry into the federal building, according to FBI documents. The agency also issued a federal warrant to view Heinl’s Facebook accounts, in which she and Grayson made plans together for their trip to Washington, D.C., the FBI included in the criminal complaint against her.

Adjudication: Heinl pleaded guilty Nov. 2, 2021, to parading and demonstrating inside a restricted building. She was sentenced June 8, 2022, to two years of probation, including 14 days of intermittent incarceration, 50 hours of community service and $500 in restitution.

Annie C. Howell

Charges: Obstruction of an official proceeding; aiding and abetting; entering a restricted building; intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government business; uttering loud, threatening or abusive language or engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

Background: Two witnesses, unnamed in the FBI document, saw a videotape that Howell, of Luzerne County, filmed inside a ransacked room of the Capitol with people chanting, “Whose house? Our house,” and “Fight for Trump,” led by a female voice, according to the FBI. Both of those witnesses saw the video on Facebook. Her father, in late January 2021, allegedly told his daughter to “Stay off the clouds!” referring to iCloud, and “They are how they are screwing with us.”

Adjudication: She pleaded guilty Dec. 2, 2021, to entering and remaining in a restricted building. She was sentenced March, 2, 2022, to 36 months of probation, including 60 days of intermittent incarceration, 60 hours of community service and $500 in restitution.

Julian Khater

Charges: Conspiracy to injure an officer; three counts of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon; one count of civil disorder; one count of obstructing or impeding an official proceeding; one count of physical violence on restricted grounds, while carrying dangerous weapon and resulting in significant bodily injury; and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct, act of physical violence on Capitol grounds.

Background: According to the charging documents, police officers formed a barricade with bicycle racks against “violent rioters,” who then tried to move the racks. Childhood friends Khater, a smoothie shop owner in State College, and George Pierre Tanios, of New Jersey, sprayed “an unknown chemical substance” in the face and eyes of police officers, including Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the following day, according to a criminal affidavit filed by the FBI. Sicknick suffered two strokes after the rioting; Khater and Tanios are not alleged to have caused his death.

Adjudication: In a plea deal, Khater admitted to assaulting and injuring law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon. On Jan. 27, 2023, Judge Thomas Hogan sentenced Khater to six years, eight months in federal prison and two years of supervised release. He also ordered Khater to pay a $10,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution.

Dale Jeremiah ‘DJ’ Shalvey

Charges: Civil disorder; assaulting an officer; theft of personal property within territorial jurisdiction; false statements to police; obstructing an official proceeding; violent entry into a restricted building; entering the U.S. Senate floor to disrupt official business; disrupting business; and demonstrating inside the Capitol.

Background: Shalvey, of Washington County, allegedly rifled through papers in the U.S. Senate chambers during the Capitol insurrection and declared that U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was “going to sell us out all along,” according to FBI documents. He owns a woodworking business in Bentleyville, according to FBI documents.

Adjudication: Shalvey pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and obstruction of an official proceeding. He was sentenced to 41 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Jackson Kostolsky

Charges: Entering a restricted building or grounds, violent entry and disorderly conduct.

Background: Kostolsky admitted to the FBI in an interview that he was inside the Capitol during the riot but said he was only about 5 feet inside, long enough to take photos and video, before being forced out by police, court records show. Friends tipped the FBI that he traveled to D.C. with another friend. He wore a leopard skin vest and a red hat to the riot. Court records include an Allentown address for Kostolsky.

Adjudication: Kostolsky pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced to three years of probation, including 30 days of home detention, and $500 in restitution. 

Raechel Genco

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.

Background: Genco, then 38, of Bristol Township, Bucks County, walked through police barriers Jan. 6 during the insurrection, according to the FBI. She was with Ryan Stephen Samsel, then 37, of Bristol Borough, who authorities allege assaulted an officer.

Samsel and a crowd of others knocked down barricades, pushing one officer onto the ground, federal authorities said. Samsel then made his way further onto Capitol grounds but said Genco did not go beyond the barriers, according to officials.

Adjudication: Genco pleaded guilty June 29, 2022, to violent entry and disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds. She was sentenced Sept. 27, 2022, to 12 months of probation and ordered to pay $500 in restitution fees.

Richard Michetti

Charges: Entering or remaining in a restricted building; intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government; disorderly conduct, and demonstrating inside a federal building.

Background: An ex-girlfriend who Michetti called a “moron” in text messages Jan. 6 turned him in. The woman, unnamed in FBI documents, described a text exchange over two days with Michetti in which he narrated his purpose for being in Washington, D.C.: “Gotta stop the vote it’s fraud this is our country,” he wrote in one message, according to FBI documents.

Late in the afternoon, he texted: “If you can’t see the election was stolen you’re a moron,” and “This is our country do you think we live like kings because no one sacrificed anything?” Michetti is from Ridley Park, Delaware County.

Adjudication: Michetti pleaded guilty May 31, 2022, to aiding and abetting obstruction of an official proceeding. He was sentenced Sept. 6, 2022, to nine months in jail, 24 months of supervised release and $2,000 in restitution.

Joseph Fischer

Charges: Civil disorder; assaulting or impeding police and aiding others; obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding others; entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; and parading or demonstrating inside a restricted building.

Background: Fischer, 54, was a police officer in North Cornwall Township, Lebanon County, suspended without pay from the department after his arrest, according to a news release from the township. 

In a criminal complaint, officials said Fischer bragged on his Facebook profile about storming the federal building. Under the username SV Spindrift, he published a video featuring him at the front of a group of rioters pushing police officers. “The video was accompanied with the text: ‘Made it inside … recieved pepper balls and pepper sprayed. Police line was 4 deep.. I made it to level two,'” the FBI complaint states.

Adjudication: Fischer challenged the obstruction charged and successfully prevailed in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, leading to the charge being dropped by prosecutors for him and other defendants. However, he still faces other charges. He is scheduled to go to trial in February.

Paul Spigelmyer

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; and disorderly or disruptive conduct that impedes the orderly conduct of government business.

Background: Spigelmyer of Lewistown, told a Facebook friend he was among the second round of people who entered the Capitol, according to FBI documents that detail the charges against him. In one blurry photograph he shared with a friend, he explained that this is the moment he and others stormed the Capitol building. He had traveled to Washington, D.C., with three other people who live near him: Christy and Matthew Clark, also of Lewistown, and Christina Traugh, of Dillsburg.

In posts on Spigelmyer’s Facebook account, he said, according to the FBI: 

• “What happened at the capital yesterday should and must continue till this election fraud is stopped”;
• “My view of the capital is, burn it to the ground”;
• “I am all for more protest and storming the capital building and I would love to see them burn it to the ground”;
• “The capital building needs to be burnt down it doesn’t belong to the people that work there.”

Adjudication: Spigelmyer originally pleaded not guilty to all charges, but on March 18, 2021, he pleaded guilty to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced to 24 months of probation, 45 days of home detention and ordered to complete 60 days of community service and pay $500 in restitution.

Christy and Matthew Clark

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; and disorderly or disruptive conduct that impedes the orderly conduct of government business.

Background: Christy Clark sent a private message to someone on Facebook that the Capitol had been breached, then said, according to the FBI: “All good, we were inside.” She explained she had been inside the Capitol. According to the FBI’s charging documents, she wrote below one photograph posted on Facebook of what appears to be the Capitol’s rotunda: “I stopped and took a second to pray before I took this pic. It was overwhelming to say the least.”

One Facebook post to Matthew Clark, Christy’s husband, said, according to the FBI: “Hay Mat…Thanks for Representing Mifflin County at the Protests in Washington yesterday.”

The Clarks traveled from Lewistown with Paul Spigelmyer, who was also arrested. A fourth person, Christina Traugh, of Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, met the group at a hotel in Rockville, Maryland, before all four left for the rally.

Adjudication: Matthew Clark originally pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. On June 17, 2022, he pleaded guilty to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. Christy Clark also pleaded not guilty to all the charges, then she pleaded guilty May 31, 2022, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. They were each sentenced to 24 months probation, 60 hours of community service and fines of $500.

Christina Traugh

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in any of the Capitol buildings.

Background: Traugh, a nurse from Dillsburg, traveled to Washington D.C. with three other Pennsylvania residents she met up with at a hotel in Rockville, Maryland: Christy Clark, Matthew Clark and Paul Spigelmyer. Prior to the rally, Traugh indicated in a private message on Facebook that she was planning on meeting with the three other individuals because Congress intended to count Electoral College votes at 1 p.m.

Law enforcement used social media posts, surveillance footage and phone messages to determine that Traugh and the three other defendants entered the Capitol building through the East Rotunda doors at 3:04 p.m. and did so "with momentum," meaning they had either rushed the doors or were pushed by others. When Capitol Police officers approached several of the rioters in the rotunda in an attempt to get them to leave, the group continued to watch events unfold and appeared to cover their faces with hoods to either obscure their faces from cameras or avoid chemical irritants police had sprayed. Traugh stayed in the building for nearly 10 minutes.

A day after taking part in the breach, Traugh went on Facebook and spread lies that the events had been perpetrated by “BLM antifa that broke in” and that it was a “[f]alse flag operation to place blame on Trump supporters," according to court documents.

Police charged Traugh on June 21, 2021. She surrendered the following day. A sentencing memorandum noted that Traugh, unlike her three companions, would not agree to an interview with the FBI.

Adjudication: Traugh, who was 49 at the time of sentencing, reached an agreement with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to a count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building on July 19, 2023. She was sentenced to 45 days of house arrest and 18 months' probation and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

L. Brent Bozell IV

Charges: The original charges against Bozell were corruptly obstructing, influencing, and impeding any official proceeding; entering a restricted building and grounds; and disorderly conduct. A federal grand jury indicted Bozell in March, adding four more charges, including destruction of government property; disorderly conduct in the Capitol; act of physical violence in the Capitol; and parading, demonstrating or picketing inside the Capitol. He pleaded not guilty to all counts on March 26, 2021.

Background: One video shows Bozell, of Palmyra, on a balcony in the Senate next to a teenager while people chanted, “Treason,” FBI documents state. Bozell, also known as “Zeek” or “Zeeker,” according to the FBI, jumped from the balcony, as did the teenager, and was later seen in another video leaving the Capitol.

Adjudication: Bozell was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison and ordered to pay $4,729 in restitution.

Michael John Lopatic Sr. 

Charges: Assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers; civil disorder; disorderly conduct; entering a restricted building and grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building and grounds; and violent entry into a restricted building and grounds. He was arrested Feb. 3, 2021, after a federal grand jury returned an indictment on him on Jan. 29.

Background: Lopatic, a Lancaster County resident, allegedly attacked one police officer, “punching him repeatedly” and stole the body camera from another police officer, according to documents filed in federal court to detain him in prison. The FBI called him a “flight risk.”

In photographs on social media in the weeks following the insurrection, Lopatic posted photos of dead birds, naming them after Democrats. Those social media posts are part of the federal records asking for his detention in prison until he is put on trial. “The defendant unquestionably poses a threat to the community,” the federal document states.

Lopatic died July 3, 2022, at Lancaster General Hospital from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to the Lancaster County coroner. He was 58.

Russell James Peterson

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds; violent entry and disorderly conduct in the Capitol; disruptive conduct in the Capitol buildings; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol buildings.

Background: The mother of Peterson, a Beaver County man, shared on Facebook that her son stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and sat in Pelosi’s chair. One of her friends went to the FBI with that information. By that time, Peterson, of Rochester Township, had already been identified by the FBI from livestreams he posted to social media of his venture inside the Capitol that day, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

He later told someone he “stormed the castle broke into the chambers and smoked a blunt on the couch,” according to authorities. 

Adjudication: He pleaded guilty Sept. 8, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He was sentenced Dec. 1, 2021, to 30 days in prison and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

Mark Roderick Aungst

Charges: Violent entry and disorderly conduct in the Capitol; parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol; knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and knowingly engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.

Background: Aungst and Tammy Bronsburg, also known as Tammy Butry, had gone to the pro-Trump rally that day with a busload of supporters. They held up the bus on its return home by an hour, Aungst telling others they had been part of the rioting inside the Capitol, according to the FBI’s charging documents.

Adjudication: Aungst pleaded guilty June 27, 2022, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. He died by suicide on July 20, 2022, according to Lycoming County Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr.

Tammy Bronsburg, aka Tammy Butry

Charges: Disorderly conduct in the Capitol; parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol; and entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.

Background: Mark Roderick Aungst showed photographs to others on a bus ride from Washington, D.C., allegedly taken inside the Capitol, including a photo of Bronsburg with a Trump flag draped over her shoulders, according to the FBI.

The FBI found a Facebook page, under the name Tammy Butry, with what appears to be photos of Bronsburg. In one post on that page, video was shared from inside the Capitol building, and Aungst appears to be on that video, according to the FBI.

Adjudication: Bronsburg pleaded guilty June 27, 2022, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. She was sentenced to 20 days in prison and two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Peter Schwartz

Charges: Assaulting or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon; civil disorder; obstruction of an official proceeding; entering and remaining in a restricted building with a dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; impeding movement in a restricted building; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building; disorderly conduct at the Capitol; impeding passage through the Capitol; and physical violence in the Capitol.

Background: Schwartz is alleged to have been in a “large group of rioters” on the west terrace of the Capitol involved in both violent and non-violent conduct, from chanting to hitting police and spraying substances at the officers. At one point, Schwartz, a convicted felon, is allegedly seen in video footage spraying mace at police officers, according to the arrest affidavit from the FBI. In a Jan. 7 post on Schwartz’s Facebook page, he allegedly wrote, “All the violence from the left was terrorism. What happened yesterday was the opening of a war. I was there and whether people will acknowledge it or not we are now at war. It would be wise to be ready!” A Kentucky welder, Peter Schwartz and his wife were living in Uniontown at the time of his arrest. 

Adjudication: On Dec. 6, 2022, a jury found Schwartz guilty of 11 of 13 charges — nine felonies and two misdemeanors — of a second superseding indictment. U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta on May 5, 2023, sentenced Schwartz to 14 years and two months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Rachel Marie Powell

Grand jury indictment charges filed: Obstruction of an official proceeding; destruction of government property; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

Background: Known as the “bullhorn lady,” Powell is a mother of eight from rural Sandy Lake. She was recognized in videos and photographs of the rioting wearing a pink hat, ramming a pole into the Capitol building and using a bullhorn to issue orders.

In the FBI’s criminal complaint, Powell is connected to a scene inside the Capitol in which a group of people were “discussing how to further penetrate the Capitol building.”

In a New Yorker article published Feb. 2, 2021, Powell admitted to her involvement at the Capitol and said she was in hiding. The FBI searched her Sandy Lake home Feb. 4 and arrested her in New Castle that evening. 

Adjudication: Powell was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 and restitution in the amount of $2,753.

Ryan Stephen Samsel

Charges: Forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, or interfered with a federal agent while they are engaged in their official duties; committed or attempt to commit any act to obstruct, impede, or interfere with any fireman or law enforcement officer lawfully engage in the lawful performance of his official duties; obstructed, influenced, or impeded any official proceeding. He was arrested Jan. 30. A grand jury added to his charges: civil disorder; assaulting an officer using a dangerous weapon; and committed physical violence on Capitol grounds with a weapon.

Background: Samsel, of Bristol Borough, Bucks County, allegedly assaulted an officer, causing her to fall and black out during the insurrection. He had become confrontational near police barricades, and Samsel removed his jacket and turned his hat around, as if he were “preparing for a physical altercation,” according to court documents. As the crowd knocked down the barricade, one officer fell and hit her head. Samsel picked her up and said, “We don’t have to hurt you. Why are you standing in our way?” court documents allege.

Adjudication: Samsel was convicted in a bench trial on Feb. 2, 2024. His sentencing has been scheduled for Feb. 4, 2025. He has been behind in jail since his Jan. 20, 2021 arrest.

Dawn Bancroft

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; knowingly engaging in disorderly conduct in any restricted building or grounds; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Background: According to a complaint filed by the FBI, Bancroft “stated that she was aware that she was entering restricted grounds when she entered through the Capitol Building window.” She filmed a video after leaving the building, in which she said, “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain but we didn’t find her,” referring to Pelosi, according to court records. Bancroft, a resident of Bucks County, allegedly sent the footage to her children, who were asked to delete the video later by their mother, the federal complaint states. 

Bancroft is the former owner and operator of the CrossFit gym in Plumstead.

Adjudication: Bancroft pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol building. She was sentenced July 21, 2022, to 60 days in prison and three years of probation and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Diana Santos-Smith

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; knowingly engaging in disorderly conduct in any restricted building or grounds; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Background: Santos-Smith, a former hospice care aide from Bucks County, and Bancroft attended the rally together. This is from the charging documents: “Specifically, Santos-Smith stated that she and Bancroft went to the Capitol to protest and that they did not have a pre-planned agenda of entering the Capitol.” 

When interviewed by federal agents, Santos-Smith initially denied entering the Capitol, but when she was shown video footage, she admitted to entering through a broken window and leaving in less than one minute. She provided authorities with video she had taken inside the building, footage she had deleted to prevent law enforcement from discovering it, the federal documents state.

Adjudication: Santos-Smith pleaded guilty Sept. 28, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol. On July 21, 2022, she was sentenced to 20 days incarceration, three years of probation and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. She was 32 at the time of sentencing.

Kenneth Grayson

Charges: Civil disorder; knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; disruptive conduct in the Capitol buildings; parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol buildings; and obstructing or impeding any official proceeding.

Background: A witness placed Grayson, from Bridgeville, Allegheny County, inside the Capitol through a livestream he posted to Facebook Jan. 6, according to charging documents. The witness, in an interview, provided the FBI with photographs and screenshots that showed Grayson’s alleged involvement in the siege. Three more tips followed from others, all with the same image of Grayson inside the Capitol, according to the documents. Prior to the rally and siege, he allegedly wrote this in a Facebook message: “I’m there for the greatest celebration of all time after Pence leads the Senate flip!! OR IM THERE IF TRUMP TELLS US TO STORM THE F—- CAPITAL IMA DO THAT THEN! We don’t want any trouble but they are not going to steal this election that I guarantee bro!!”

Adjudication: Grayson, who was 51 at the time of his arrest, pleaded guilty Sept. 20, 2022, to civil disorder. He was sentenced Dec. 19, 2022, to two months in prison and two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. 

Matthew Perna

Charges: Obstruction of an official proceeding; aiding and abetting; knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; and disorderly conduct in a restricted building.

Background: In an 8-minute video Perna posted to social media Jan. 6 about his day, he said, “Steve and I, we walked right into the Capitol building,” according to charging documents. A witness to his Facebook postings told law enforcement that Perna, who is from Sharon, often posted pro-Trump messages and QAnon conspiracy theories.

Perna died by suicide on Feb. 25, 2022.

Jorden R. Mink

Charges: Entering a restricted building with a weapon; destruction of government property; theft of government property; disorderly conduct; civil disorder; act of violence inside a restricted building; assault on a law enforcement officer; and assaulting an officer using a dangerous weapon.

Background: Mink, of Oakdale, Allegheny County, used a baseball bat in the Capitol to damage property, “as part of a mob that disrupted the proceedings of Congress, engaged in property damage and theft, and caused physical injury,” according to charging documents. In his Instagram account, from a photo taken in November, Mink is holding a firearm with a sticker that says: I voted. “The commentary to the post reads, ‘The ballot is stronger than the bullet.’ – Abraham Lincoln. Well … my magazines will be fully loaded just in case it’s not,'” charging documents state.

Adjudication: Mink, who prosecutors said has a lengthy history of arrests and convictions, pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers using a dangerous weapon and theft of government property. He was sentenced June 2, 2023, to 51 months in prison and three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. He was 29 at the time of sentencing.

Barton Shively

Charges: Aiding and abetting; civil disorder; forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any officer or employee of the United States or of any agency in any branch of the United States government while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; restricted building or grounds; and violent entry, obstruct or impede passage, engage in physical violence on grounds or any of the Capitol buildings.

Background: A Marine veteran from Mechanicsburg, Shively contacted law enforcement Jan. 14, 2021, to admit he had been at the Capitol Jan. 6 after a photo was released by federal authorities seeking his identity. Video taken from police body cameras showed him assaulting police officers a few times that day, according to court documents.

Shively told agents he was in the back of the crowd, but once the barricades were broken down he walked past them and up the Capitol steps and confronted law enforcement officers. When he was pushed, he became angry and admitted, “I got caught up in the moment.” and grabbed a police officer by his jacket and began yelling at the officer. Other incidents were also recorded of his confrontations with officers that day.

Adjudication: Shively pleaded guilty on Aug. 25, 2022, to two counts of assaulting police officers. On June 1, 2023, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. Shively was 55 at the time of sentencing.

Riley June Williams

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. A grand jury indictment also charged her with: civil disorder; assaulting or impeding law enforcement; and theft of government property.

Background: Williams, of Harrisburg, described in court records as an adherent of the "America First" movement and White Nationalist Nick Fuentes, was accused of leading rioters up a set of stairs and into Pelosi’s office. She was heard in a video telling someone to put gloves on before taking a laptop belonging to Pelosi. Later, she posted online that she had stolen Pelosi's laptop and a gavel. A former romantic partner of Williams informed federal agents that Williams planned to send the computer to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to Russia’s foreign intelligence service, charging documents stated. The transfer of the device to Russia fell through for unknown reasons and, at the time charges were filed, she either still had the computer or destroyed it, according to the documents.

Williams was in the Capitol building for 90 minutes. Upon exiting the building, she climbed on top of a parked police car to celebrate. She was 22 at the time of the riot.

She had traveled to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, with her father, a Camp Hill resident, but they had split up during the day, according to the federal documents.

Adjudication: On Nov. 21, 2022, a jury convicted Williams, one of the most well-known people to be charged in the U.S. Capitol riot, on six charges, including two felonies for assaulting Capitol police as they were trying to clear the rotunda. However, charges for stealing the laptop and gavel were dropped after the jury failed to reach a verdict. The jury also couldn't reach a verdict on the charge of obstructing an official proceeding. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on March 23, 2023, sentenced Williams to three years in prison and three years of supervised release. She also ordered Williams to complete 150 hours of community service and pay $2,000 in restitution. Jackson on March 22, 2024, rejected Williams' request for a reduced sentence.

Craig Bingert

Charges: Via a superseding indictment, Bingert's charges included: obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting; assaulting or resisting an officer; civil disorder; entering and remaining in a restricted a building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; impeding passage into the Capitol; and act of physical violence in the Capitol building or grounds.

Background: Bingert, a former state police cadet from Slatington, was alleged to have pushed police barriers toward officers on Jan. 6. Bingert and a Montana man, Isaac Sturgeon, acting independently, joined a mob of rioters on the West Front of the Capitol grounds at the base of the inaugural stage as the mob violently broke through a police line and forced officers to retreat up a set of stairs under scaffolding. Bingert and Sturgeon followed the crowd minutes later, climbed through the scaffolding, went up another set of stairs and joined other rioters who were trying to force their way through a barricade of bike racks being used by police to defend the Capitol, according to a sentencing memorandum. Bingert and Sturgeon stood side-by-side in front of the bike racks and police officers, as a third defendant, Taylor Johnatakis, standing beside them, used a bullhorn to call on rioters to "pack it in." On Johnatakis's count, Bingert, Sturgeon and Johnatakis grabbed the bike rack and pushed it against officers, injuring at least one of them. Police officers responded with “chemical irritants,” according to the document. The two men remained on the Upper West Terrace for another two hours, watching as other rioters attacked police. Bingert waved an American flag and at one point, shouted, “(expletive) the police!” Both men were forcibly removed from the grounds by police. Bingert turned himself into the FBI on Jan. 17, 2022.

Adjudication: U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth convicted Bingert and Sturgeon following a bench trial in May 2023. On Sept. 26, 2023, he sentenced Bingert, who was 32 at the time, to eight years in prison and three years of supervised release and ordered him to $2,000 in restitution.

Andrew Wrigley

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Background: Claiming he was tear-gassed inside the Capitol, Wrigley, from Jim Thorpe, posted multiple photos and videos from Jan. 6 trip. His posts had headings, according to federal documents, that said: “At the protest in DC at the capitol building #stopthesteal” and “At the protest in DC. I went inside the capitol building and got tear gassed.” Two days later, the Facebook page was deleted, according to charging documents. Wrigley, described in court documents as an artist and talented painter, took a tour bus from Doylestown to Washington D.C. the day of the rally. He was carrying a 1776 flag that he was photographed with at the rally.

Adjudication: Wrigley pleaded guilty Sept. 8, 2021, to parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol building. On Dec. 2, 2021, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Wrigley, who was 51 at the time, to 18 months probation and ordered him to pay a $2,000 fine and $500 in restitution.

Robert Sanford

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly or disruptive conduct on Capitol grounds; civil disorder; and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers while engaged in the performance of official duties. A superseding indictment added to his charge assaulting or resisting law enforcement officers.

Background: Robert Sanford, a recently retired Chester firefighter from Boothwyn, was accused of assaulting officers by throwing a fire extinguisher at them. Three officers were hit. 

Adjudication: Sanford pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers. He was sentenced on April 11, 2023, to 52 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release. Sanford, who was 57 at the time of sentencing, was also ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution to the Architect of the Capitol and $3,798 in restitution for the medical expenses of the Capitol Police officer he injured. 

Terry Brown

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; or knowingly, with intent to impede government business or official functions, engaging in disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Background: Brown, of Myerstown, was one of six people inside the Capitol who allegedly defied police orders to leave the building and, instead, shouted and cursed at Capitol Police officers. Those six people were handcuffed immediately and taken into custody.

Adjudication: Brown pleaded guilty on Sept. 10, 2021, to parading inside the Capitol building. He was sentenced on Dec. 1, 2021, to 36 months probation, $500 restitution and 60 hours of community service. He was 70 at the time of sentencing.

Esvetiana Cramer, Steven Boyd Barber

Charges: Knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted ruilding or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building or grounds; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building.

Background: Cramer, a former nursing assistant from Harveys Lake, Luzerne County, and Barber, a former real estate agent from Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, traveled to Washington D.C. together by bus on Jan. 6. They entered the Capitol through the rotunda doors at 2:43 p.m. While inside, Cramer carried a "Latinos for Trump" sign, and wore an American flag-style long-sleeve shirt. Barber wore a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap and a blue Trump flag. They were identified by cell phone data and CCTV footage. Both Cramer and Barber later admitted to law enforcement being inside the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Adjudication: In November 2023, Cramer and Barber were each sentenced to 24 months probation, 60 hours of community service and fines of $500 on charges of disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building or grounds and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building. Two other charges were dropped. Cramer was 55 and Barber was 43 at the time of sentencing.

Terry Allen

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or on restricted grounds; obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder; and assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer.

Background: Allen, of Spring Mills, Centre County, was arrested on July 7, 2023, after multiple witnesses identified him in surveillance footage assaulting police officers on the West Plaza shortly after 1 p.m. Jan. 6. Allen is shown shoving officers and then using a 5-foot wooden flagpole as a lance to strike officers in a stabbing motion. Later, Allen can be seen picking up metallic fencing beyond a police line and handing it to other rioters. At one point, Allen uses the fencing as a weapon against police. Shortly before 2 p.m., officers used pepper spray against Allen and other rioters, to which Allen responds by throwing a black metallic pole at them.

Adjudication: Allen was sentenced on Nov. 14 to two years in prison and two years of supervised release following his incarceration. He must also pay restitution of $1,000. Allen was 65 at the time of sentencing.

Matthew Valentin, Andrew Valentin

Charges: Civil disorder; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; act of physical violence in the Capitol Building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.

Background: Brothers Matthew Valentin and Andrew Valentin, both of Stroudsburg, were spotted in open-source video walking from the Washington Monument to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Once on the grounds, the brothers climbed a media tower in the area of the West Plaza. Later they joined a crowd in rushing a police line that had been formed using bike racks as barricades. Shortly after 2:29 p.m., the brothers pushed one of the metal barricades into a line of Capitol Police officers. Officers retreated and formed a new protective line on the south side of the West Plaza, according to court records. Matthew Valentin approached the line and sprayed a chemical irritant toward the officers.

The brothers moved from the lower West Terrace to the upper West Terrace at 2:50 p.m., where Matthew Valentin and other rioters rushed a line of Metropolitan Police and Capitol Police officers. Matthew Valentin tried to take a baton out of one officer’s hands, according to court documents. At 5:12 p.m., Andrew Valentin threw a folding chair at a protective line of Montgomery County and Capitol Police officers, who were trying to barricade a set of stairs from the West Plaza to the upper West Terrace. The chair struck one officer's shield.

Adjudication: On Sept. 26, Matthew Valentin pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. Andrew Valentin pleaded guilty to one felony count of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and a second felony count of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon. At the time of their guilty pleas, Matthew Valentin was 31, and Andrew Valentin was 26. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton will sentence them Jan. 17, according to the Department of Justice.

Cameron Campanella II

Charges: Knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building or grounds; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building.

Background: Campanella, of York, was captured on surveillance video, as well as video posted on YouTube, entering the Capitol Building through the Senate wing doors at approximately 3 p.m. He walked down a corridor, returned to the vicinity of the doors and exited the building a minute later.

Adjudication: Campanella, who was 46 at the time, was sentenced in January 2024 to 12 months' probation and ordered to pay $500 in restitution for disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building or grounds and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building. Two other charges were dismissed.

Anthony Nolf

Charges: Civil disorder, knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.

Background: Nolf, of Birdsboro, was arrested April 5, 2023, after an investigation found that he, his minor son, his sister, Heather Kepley, of Lewes, Delaware, and his minor nephew met in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6. According to the complaint, Nolf approached the west front of the Capitol near the inaugural stage and, with Kepley, assisted rioters in moving bike racks that were blocking their approach. Then the two made their way to the Lower West Terrace and the tunnel, which serves as an entry to the Capitol and provides "immediate and unobstructed access" to "sensitive areas and offices" used by members of Congress. Between 4:15 and 4:27 p.m., Nolf and Kepley joined the efforts of other rioters to force their way past police officers who were securing the tunnel. Nolf, while in the tunnel, confronted and assisted other rioters in confronting officers in this location. They used a "heave-ho" method to place pressure on the line of officers barricading the entryway to the Capitol. Nolf and Kepley later stood outside the tunnel and watched as officers cleared the space of rioters.

Adjudication: Nolf pleaded guilty to one felony count of civil disorder on Oct. 20, 2023. On June 24, Nolf, who was 38 at the time, was sentenced to three months in prison, five months of home detention and 31 months of supervised released and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Mark Nealy

Charges: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in any of the Capitol buildings.

Background: Nealy, the owner of a fence contracting business from Shippensburg, traveled on a bus to Washington, D.C., on the morning of Jan. 6 as part of trip organized by state Sen. Doug Mastriano. At approximately 1:25 p.m., Nealy entered the Capitol through the Senate wing doors. He walked toward the Capitol Crypt East and was captured on surveillance video minutes later on the first floor of the Crypt East lobby. He exited the building at the direction of law enforcement at 2:38 p.m. through the Senate wing door.

Adjudication: As part of an agreement with prosecutors, Nealy pleaded guilty to the charge of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in any of the Capitol buildings. Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced Nealy on Dec. 20, 2023, to 14 days in prison and $500 of restitution. He was 52 at the time of sentencing.

Dustin Sargent

Charges: Obstruction of an official proceeding; civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings; entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in any of the Capitol buildings.

Background: Sargent, of Kunkletown, Monroe County, first entered the Capitol Building via a broken window near the Senate wing doors on the west side of the building, then exited the area and re-entered through the East Rotunda doors. Around 2:36 p.m., Sargent, wearing goggles and other tactical gear, is seen in video footage shoving one officer and grabbing another in an attempt to let more rioters into the building. Surveillance video also captured Sargent outside of the House Chamber, telling police who are preventing rioters from entering that, 'You're supposed to be with us."

Police seized Facebook messages that show Sargent's unhappiness with the election results.

In response to the question "Who do we fight?" from another Facebook user, Sargent on Dec. 13, 2020, said Black Lives Matter and "antifa" protestors were "small potatoes."

"Your going to be fighting the traitors in our government and there bought and payed for cops and military… but theres more good ones then bad ones… the bad ones take their orders from corrupt politicians and government employees," Sargent wrote, according to court records.

In the same conversation, Sargent discusses apprehending government employees and putting them before "military courts." He says in the exchange that treason is punishable by death. "were (sic) not going to let them steal our country."

Two days before the riot, Sargent talks about wanting his wife to be able to visit him in the hospital "if I'm gonna die." He also talks about government employees being publicly hanged.

Adjudication: Sargent was 30 when he was arrested on Feb. 2, 2023. On Oct. 31, 2024, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia offered a revised plea deal to Sargent. Sargent had until Dec. 31 to accept or reject the offer. On Nov. 1, prosecutors dismissed the obstruction of an official proceeding charge against Sargent in accordance with the U.S. Supreme Court's Fischer v. United States ruling. It is not yet known if Sargent accepted the plea deal.

Scott Slater Sr., Scott Slater Jr., Tighe Scott, Jarrett Scott

Charges:

Scott Slater Sr.: Civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building; acts of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds.

Scott Slater Jr. Civil disorder; Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a dangerous weapon; Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers (four counts total); entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building; and acts of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings.

Tighe Scott: Civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers (two counts); disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building; acts of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds;

Jarrett Scott: Civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building, and acts of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings;

Background: According to the criminal complaint, Scott Slater Jr., Scott Slater Sr. and Jarrett Scott, of Saylorsburg, Monroe County, and Tighe Scott, a former NASCAR driver from Pen Argyl, Northampton County, allegedly confronted a police line outside the Capitol around 4 p.m. Jarrett Scott and Slater Sr. held golf clubs as they pushed against officers' shields. Slater Jr. threw a flagpole and an "area closed" sign at the line of officers. Tighe Scott allegedly attempted to take one officer's shield.

Adjudication: The four men were arrested in June and a grand jury returned a 15-count indictment against them in August. Prosecutors have offered the men a plea deal, which they had until the end of 2024 to accept. A status conference was held Jan. 2, the results of which are not yet public. At the time of their arrest, Scott Slater Jr. was 26, Scott Slater Sr. was 56, Jarrett Scott was 48 and Tighe Scott was 75.

Gerald "Jeremiah" Powell

Charges: Civil disorder; fentering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building or grounds.

Background: Powell, of York, was 51 when the FBI arrested him May 9, 2024. He's accused of moving police barricades set up around the U.S. Capitol and then entering the building with other rioters.

Adjudication: Powell's attorney, William Shipley, asked the court to delay proceedings after Trump's re-election in November, citing Trump's repeated vows to pardon Jan. 6 rioters and Special Counsel Jack Smith's request to pause the case against Trump. Powell is supposed to go to trial this year.

Troy Spackman

Charges: Civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers. Additionally, he is charged with several misdemeanors, including disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, and performing an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings.

Background: Spackman, of West York, was arrested in October 2023 for allegedly deploying a canister of pepper spray at police outside the U.S. Capitol. Spackman was 40 at the time of his arrest.

Adjudication: Shipley, who also serves as Spackman's attorney, asked the court Nov. 11 to also pause proceedings against Spackman due to Trump's re-election as president.

Jamie Charlesworth, Tyler Henson, Stephen Oseen

Charges: Entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, picketing and demonstrating in a Capitol building.

Background: Charlesworth, a Gettysburg resident who was 35 when he was arrested on May 30, 2024; Henson, a 30-year-old Marion resident; and Oseen, a 38-year-old East Berlin resident, traveled to Washington D.C. together on Jan. 6, 2021, and entered the Capitol building via a window around 2:50 p.m. On Jan. 19, 2021, an FBI tip website received a video taken by Henson of the activity outside the Capitol. At one point, the camera reverses to the front-facing camera of Henson's cell phone, showing the lower portion of his face. He was interviewed in August that year. All three men are cousins.

Adjudication: Henson pleaded guilty Oct. 11 to two charges — disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building — and is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 17. A status conference hearing for Oseen and Charlesworth has been scheduled for Jan. 14.

Matthew Rink can be reached at mrink@timesnews.com or on X at @ENRink.