TAMPA — Federal prosecutors have accused two extra native males of crimes associated to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol, bringing Florida’s complete variety of arrests to 87.
James Brett IV, of Clearwater, and Brian Boele, of Lakeland, have been named in an indictment filed final week in Washington, D.C. They are charged with civil dysfunction and different crimes associated to the siege, which disrupted congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election outcomes.
The new indictment affords few particulars of the particular allegations. But federal prosecutors in a news launch acknowledged that Brett and Boele have been a part of a gaggle that illegally entered Capitol grounds and moved to the Lower West Terrace, the place rioters clashed with police.
Brett, 48, and Boele, 59, have been each set to look in court docket Friday afternoon in Tampa.
Their names have been added to an ongoing federal case towards three different native males — Alan Fischer III of Tampa, Dion Rajewski of Largo and Zachary Johnson of St. Petersburg — who have been arrested in January.
Fischer is described in federal court docket information as an affiliate of the Proud Boys extremist group. On Jan. 6, he was photographed marching with different Proud Boys to the Capitol, and was later seen among the many crowd that pushed towards a line of cops, in keeping with court docket information. He helped cross an officer’s defend out of the tunnel and later was seen throwing two chairs, an orange visitors cone and a pole at cops, information state.
Rajewski and Johnson are alleged to have carried pepper spray through the riot. Johnson is accused of spraying an officer with it.
It isn’t clear what if any connection the 5 males have with one another.
More than 800 folks have been accused of participating in the riot. Florida leads the nation in the variety of folks arrested associated to the siege. Texas and Pennsylvania are tied for second-place, with every state totaling 69 arrests to this point.
The FBI continues work to determine lots of extra who have been pictured in and across the Capitol through the riot, together with many who’re alleged to have bodily attacked cops and members of the media.