The Justice Department announced on Monday that five members of the right-wing Proud Boys group were charged by the Justice Department with “seditious conspiracy” related to their alleged roles in the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021.
The Justice Department says that more than 800 defendants have been arrested related to the Capitol riot, including over 250 defendants charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement officers.
“From in and around December 2020, through in and around January 2021, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendants, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Enrique Tarrio, and Dominic Pezzola, did knowingly conspire, confederate, and agree, with other persons known and unknown to the grand jury, to oppose by force the authority of the Government of the United States and by force to prevent, hinder, and delay the execution of any law of the United States," prosecutors...
The DOJ noted that a sixth defendant, Charles Donohoe, who was earlier charged with the group, pleaded guilty in April to a “conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers.”