January 6 defendant arrested for allegedly planning to kill FBI agents who had investigated him https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/politics/edward-kelley-january-6-fbi-agents/index.html
First, do no harm. Second, commit no insurrection. Massachusetts Doctor Charged with Punching Police at Capitol on Jan. 6, Came ‘Prepared’ with ‘Mesh Knife-Proof Shirt’ and Pepper Spray: Feds https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol...mesh-knife-proof-shirt-and-pepper-spray-feds/ Nearly two years after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a Massachusetts doctor who has been practicing for almost four decades has been arrested for punching a police officer in an alleged assault caught on tape. Jacquelyn Starer, 68, of Ashland, was arrested on felony charges Tuesday, the Justice Department announced. She is accused of joining the mob of Donald Trump supporters who invaded the Capitol building as Congress was certifying Joe Biden‘s 2020 electoral win, facing off against police in the Capitol Rotunda, and punching a police officer. Starer joins nearly 300 others accused of assaulting law enforcement at the Capitol, and her arrest falls one day after the Jan. 6th Committee criminally referred Trump for allegedly inciting that “insurrection.” According to the FBI’s affidavit, Starer drove to Washington from Massachusetts and was seen at Trump’s Jan. 6 so-called “Stop the Steal” rally, where the then-president repeated falsehoods about his 2020 electoral loss and urged his supporters to march to the Capitol building. Starer, wearing a red Trump hat and a red jacket, followed those instructions, and allegedly entered the East Rotunda Doors at 2:51 p.m., more than 30 minutes after the initial breach of the building. Minutes later, prosecutors say, Starer approached Metropolitan Police Department officers, and police body-worn camera footage shows her using her right hand to strike one officer, identified only as M.B., at around 2:59 p.m. “Officer M.B. stated that a blonde woman wearing a red jacket and hat punched her in the left side of her head,” the Statement of Facts says. “According to Officer M.G., her Sergeant pulled her back to check on her, Officer M.B. told the Sergeant she had been punched by the woman, and the Sergeant told her to return to the line.” Starer apparently wasn’t finished at that point — but neither, apparently was the officer. “Officer M.B. stated that the blonde woman came at her again, and Officer M.B. struck the woman in response,” the affidavit says. After that, the crowd apparently became more agitated, and a “physical altercation between rioters and officers ensued as the officers attempted to restrict the rioters from passing through the archway entrance to the area behind them,” the affidavit says. Starer was reportedly “affected by the chemical irritant that was deployed during the altercation.” Security footage and publicly-available photographs appear to show Starer leaving the building at around 3:06 p.m. and receiving “first aid assistance to her eyes and face.” The doctor has been charged with two felonies: civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. She has also been charged with four trespassing and disorderly conduct misdemeanors. The civil disorder charge carries a statutory maximum sentence of five years in prison, and the assault charge has a potential eight years. The misdemeanors carry a combined potential three years behind bars. Starer has been on the FBI’s radar since at least Jan. 11, 2021, when, according to the affidavit, a tipster submitted an online tip regarding Starer. “According to Tipster-1, prior to Jan. 6, 2021, STARER bragged to a mutual acquaintance that she ‘was prepared’ for it, with a mesh knife-proof shirt and bottles of pepper spray,” the affidavit says. The affidavit notes that Starer had planned to spend a few days in Washington, evidenced by her reservations from Jan. 5 to Jan. 7 at a hotel near the Capitol. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine records show that Starer, who is apparently enrolled as a Medicare provider, specializes in addiction medicine and obstetrics and gynecology. She has been licensed to practice medicine in the state since July 1983 and records do not indicate any history of disciplinary action. She had been linked to Brigham and Women’s Faulkner hospital, but representatives have confirmed that she is no longer an employee there. “Per hospital policy, the only information we are able to share is employment status,” a spokesperson told Law&Crime in an emailed statement. “This individual was a per diem employee who is no longer active at our organization.” Read the affidavit here.
Jan. Sixers Are Using Sovereign Citizen Defenses to Try and Get Out of Prison Nearly a dozen Capitol riot defendants have invoked phony legal theories in their cases. That includes bloody fingerprints and attacks on their own lawyers. https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-s...-citizen-defenses-to-try-to-get-out-of-prison On October 28, long after pleading guilty to brawling with police inside the U.S. Capitol, James Mault and Greg Rubenacker filed near-identical documents from inside Pennsylvania’s Allenwood Low correctional facility. “The United States District Court is a private for profit corporation. (It is not government owned),” read Rubenacker’s handwritten filing. “This court was created in 1871, along with the new form of government without the backing of the 1787 Constitution of the United States for America [sic]. This court was created 14 years after the 1787 Constitution.” On these grounds, and what they described as other new legal revelations, Mault and Rubenacker requested their cases be dismissed. “If I knew about this information, I would of never plead guilty,” Rubenacker wrote. The filings, full of pseudo-legal arguments, strange punctuation, and (in Rubenacker’s case) what appears to be blood, bear the hallmarks of sovereign citizen ideology. The sovereign citizen movement falsely claims that adherents are immune from large portions of the law, or that many government institutions are secretly illegitimate. The movement has a growing foothold in far-right communities, including among QAnon followers and members of an alleged plot to overthrow the German government who were arrested this month. And increasingly, sovereign citizen legal tactics have found their way into cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. At least 11 defendants have deployed what experts describe as sovereign citizen talking points, either during their arrests, their trials, or even after pleading guilty. “The sovereign citizen ideology is essentially that ‘You don’t have power over me, you don’t have control of me. The law doesn’t apply to me. The government is nonexistent,’” Christine Sarteschi, an associate professor of social work and criminology at Chatham University told The Daily Beast. “And if they could, they would essentially like to overthrow the government.” Embracing Sovereign Citizenship Sarteschi, who tracks the sovereign citizen movement, has documented nearly a dozen apparent adherents in Capitol riot cases. Most famous among those is Pauline Bauer, a Pennsylvania restaurant owner who made headlines for strange, sovereign-inspired antics in court. Bauer is facing multiple counts of violent entry, disruptive conduct, and obstruction of Congress for her actions on Jan. 6, when she was filmed entering the Capitol and telling a police officer to “bring Nancy Pelosi out here now… we want to hang that fucking bitch.” In court, she has claimed divine immunity from laws. “I do not stand under the law,” Bauer told a judge last year. “Under Genesis 1, God gave man dominion over the law.” Strange though the argument was, it wasn’t Bauer’s invention. She learned it from Bobby Lawrence, a Pennsylvania man who’s built a following by preaching a fantasy legal theory that he describes as “American state nationalism.” Like many orbiters of the sovereign citizen world, Lawrence insists his teachings are not related to the sovereign movement. “By and large everyone equates us to sovereign citizens,” he told The Daily Beast. “That’s how the public looks at it. They don’t realize there’s a difference between a national and a city-zen. City-zen. Municipal public servant. Break down the word: city, zen, ship. Municipal servant in admiralty.” He’s correct insofar as sovereign citizenship isn’t real and no one can attain it. But his teachings, which urge followers to declare themselves as “nationals” of individual states (rather than of the U.S., which he believes is actually called the “several states”) is indistinguishable from other sovereign citizen practices. Bauer tried following his advice for a time, spurning a lawyer in favor of representing herself—and likely resulting in more pretrial jail from a judge who stated that “I don’t want to lock you up... But you have made it clear that you feel you are above the law.” In retrospect, Lawrence said, Bauer should have taken a more conventional legal route. “I’ve been studying on it for two years and I’ve learned so much in two years,” he said. But “knowing what I know now, I would’ve advised her to find a really good attorney and not helped her because it was too much of a heavy lift for her to do that.” Bauer, who could not be reached for comment, has since begun working with a real lawyer and was released to her home in September. She has pleaded not guilty. But while Bauer appears to be moving away from the practice, other Capitol riot defendants seem to have embraced sovereign citizenship in recent months. James Beeks, a Broadway actor-turned-Oathkeeper, has espoused sovereign citizen talking points while on trial for his participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In a court filing last month, he announced that he was firing his public defender and choosing to represent himself “in Propria Sui Juris,” a favorite term of sovereign citizens acting as their own lawyers. He stylized his name as “:james beeks:,” a flourish the sovereign movement believes makes them immune from taxes, and signed the document with both the common sovereign sign of a fingerprint and his name, followed by “all rights reserved,” which sovereign citizens believe is an assertion of a person’s individual copyright. He has pleaded not guilty. (More about these idiots at above url)
Demented insurrectionist wants to get back in the Capitol... Convicted Capitol Rioter Announces Run for Congress https://www.thedailybeast.com/convi...k-evans-of-west-virginia-running-for-congress A convicted Jan. 6 rioter who spent three months behind bars for storming Congress is now running for a seat in the very building he attacked in a failed attempt to disrupt Joe Biden’s certification as president-elect. Onetime West Virginia delegate Derrick Evans—who livestreamed himself during the Capitol riot while yelling, “Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!”— announced his congressional bid on Friday, the second anniversary of the attack by a pro-Trump mob. “There’s just one thing to do,” Evans, who is running as a Republican, said in a statement. “Let’s hit the campaign trail, listen to our constituents, and set our sights on Capitol Hill. Thank you and God bless America.” Read it at WTRF
The number of arrests from the January 6 insurrection will soon hit 1000. More than 950 people have been charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot, but investigation 'far from over' https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...w-many-people-charged-jan-6-riot/10965483002/
Baked Alaska gets two months in the cooler https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/politics/anthime-gionet-baked-alaska-capitol-riot-sentence/index.html
3 Active-Duty Marines Who Work in Intelligence Arrested for Alleged Participation in Jan. 6 Riot https://www.military.com/daily-news...rrested-alleged-participation-jan-6-riot.html Three Marines were arrested Wednesday for their participation in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. Micah Coomer, Joshua Abate, and Dodge Dale Hellonen -- three men identified by investigators as active-duty Marines -- were arrested on four charges each stemming from their participation in the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol in a bid to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election. The three men are the first active-duty military members to be arrested in connection with the siege since Marine Maj. Christopher Warnagiris, who was taken into custody in May 2021 on nine charges. All three Marines, who were arrested more than two years after the attack, work in jobs connected to the intelligence community. A Marine Corps spokesman confirmed that the service is "aware of an investigation and the allegations" and added the service "is fully cooperating with appropriate authorities in support of the investigation." According to the complaint filed by federal prosecutors, investigators first learned of the three men when they found photos from inside the Capitol that Coomer had posted on Instagram including "the caption 'Glad to be apart [sic] of history.'" A search warrant was issued for his social media accounts in August 2021. After officials identified Coomer, they used video and images from inside the building that day to identify Abate and Hellonen as well, according to court documents. Later, investigators explained that all three men's identities were confirmed by comparing their images in the videos to their driver's licenses, as well as their military identification card photos. According to court documents, the trio spent just under an hour milling about the Capitol, including the Rotunda, where they put "a red MAGA hat on one of the statues to take photos with it." In a chat with another Instagram user in the weeks after the siege, the court records say Coomer told an unidentified person "that everything in this country is corrupt. We honestly need a fresh restart. I'm waiting for the boogaloo." When the other person asked what a "boogaloo" was, Coomer said "Civil war 2." The Boogaloo movement is broadly anti-government in nature but favors violence with the use of the term "boogaloo" typically slang for a future race war. However, some experts, like the Anti-Defamation League, have noted that "most boogalooers are not white supremacists, though one can find white supremacists within the movement." According to records provided to Military.com by the Marine Corps, all three men have been enlisted in the Marines for more than four years, with Hellonen, who enlisted in August 2017, being the most senior. On paper, the three Marines hold demanding jobs tied to the intelligence community, are stationed at major commands, and have personal commendations and awards to their name. At least one held a significant security clearance. All three had been awarded good conduct medals. Abate, a sergeant, is assigned to the Marine Corps' Cryptologic Support Battalion at Fort Meade, Maryland -- also home to the National Security Agency headquarters -- as a signals intelligence operator and analyst. Records provided by the Marine Corps show that among his awards was a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, an unusual and prestigious medal for a junior Marine. Court documents say that Abate admitted to being in the Capitol in a June 2022 interview that was part of his security clearance process. "During the interview, Abate discussed entering the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 with two 'buddies,'" the documents say, before adding that they "walked around and tried not to get hit with tear gas." "Abate also admitted he heard how the event was being portrayed negatively and decided that he should not tell anybody about going into the U.S. Capitol Building," the court document said. Hellonen, a sergeant, is assigned to the 3rd Marine Raider Support Battalion -- a unit that supports Marine Corps Special Operations Command -- also as a signals intelligence operator and analyst. He is stationed at Camp Lejeune, and his warrant shows he was arrested in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Earlier in his career in the Marine Corps, Hellonen was highlighted by the Air Force as a "student of the month" while attending a joint school on an Air Force base. Coomer, a corporal and the man whose social media posting was credited by investigators as leading them to the trio, is assigned to 1st Radio Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, at Camp Pendleton as a system engineer for intelligence and reconnaissance systems. His arrest warrant shows he was arrested in nearby Oceanside, California. The careers of the three men stand in contrast to the other enlisted service members who were arrested for allegedly taking part in the riot. Most were lower ranking than the three Marines, and some were struggling to find success in the military. For example, Pfc. Abram Markofski, a Wisconsin National Guardsman who pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in the assault on the Capitol, was removed from Special Forces Selection for failing the Army's physical fitness test. However, the men are not the only members of the intelligence community to be arrested for their alleged part in the siege. In the summer of 2022, federal authorities arrested Petty Officer 1st Class Hatchet Speed, a sailor assigned to the Naval Warfare Space Field Activity at the National Reconnaissance Office, an agency that says it is responsible for developing, launching and operating America's spy satellites. The three Marines now join the other nine service members -- active, reserve and National Guard -- who have been arrested for alleged crimes stemming from Jan. 6. Two other men were booted from basic training as their investigations unfolded. According to the George Washington University's Project on Extremism, out of the 940 defendants charged with crimes stemming from Jan. 6, 118, or 12%, have some form of military background. -- Konstantin Toropin can be reached at konstantin.toropin@military.com. Follow him on Twitter @ktoropin.
Man who used Confederate flag against Capitol Police officer on January 6 sentenced to 3 years in prison https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/politics/kevin-seefried-confederate-flag-capitol-riot/index.html
Insurrectionist removed from office for insurrectioning. New Mexico Supreme Court reaffirms dismissal of Griffin insurrection appeal https://www.citizensforethics.org/n...rms-dismissal-of-griffin-insurrection-appeal/ The New Mexico Supreme Court yesterday affirmed its decision to dismiss Couy Griffin’s appeal of a court’s decision to remove him from office for participating in an insurrection. The ruling, which affirmed the dismissal of Mr. Griffin’s appeal on procedural grounds, means that Judge Mathew’s decision that the January 6th attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Mr. Griffin engaged in it stands. Following the ruling, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel Donald Sherman released the following statement: “The New Mexico Supreme Court’s decision means that Judge Mathew’s ruling – that Mr. Griffin engaged in insurrection on January 6th and disqualified himself from office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment – will stand. We’re pleased that the precedent set by our victory will help protect our democratic institutions from insurrectionists. We look forward to holding more insurrectionists accountable under the 14th Amendment, including Donald Trump.”
Jan. 6 rioter who threatened Rep. Ocasio-Cortez sentenced to 38 months in prison Garret Miller was wearing an "I was there" T-shirt when he was arrested. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...eatened-rep-ocasio-cortez-sentenced-rcna71784