MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – The former prime leader of the Proud Boys will stay jailed whereas awaiting trial on costs that he conspired with different members of the far-right extremist group to assault the U.S. Capitol and cease Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory, a federal decide has dominated.
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio poses a hazard to the general public that can’t be mitigated by house detention and banning him from utilizing social media, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly mentioned in an order issued late Friday.
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Tarrio, a South Florida resident, has been jailed since his arrest on March 8, a day after his indictment on costs together with conspiracy. A federal Justice of the Peace in Miami beforehand ordered his pretrial detention.
Tarrio and different Proud Boys leaders used encrypted channels, social media and different digital communications to plan and perform a plot to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and intervene with the congressional certification of the Electoral College vote, in accordance to the indictment.
Tarrio requested Kelly to order his launch on bond, however the decide rejected the request. Kelly mentioned the proof towards Tarrio is “very strong” regardless of Tarrio’s argument that authorities basically wouldn’t have “a smoking gun” towards him, “perhaps in the form of direct evidence of an order from Tarrio to other Proud Boys to storm the Capitol.”
Tarrio was not in Washington when the revolt passed off. Police had arrested Tarrio within the District of Columbia two days earlier than the riot and charged him with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church throughout a protest in December 2020. A decide ordered Tarrio to stay out of the nation’s capital.
Before he left Washington, Tarrio met with Oath Keepers founder and leader Elmer “Stewart” Rhodes and others in an underground parking storage for about half-hour, authorities say. Rhodes and a number of other different members or associates of the anti-government Oath Keepers militia group are charged with seditious conspiracy within the Capitol assault.
A documentary filmmaker recorded a part of the storage assembly.
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“But not much about the substance of the meeting can be gleaned from the clips — at one point, Tarrio and others motion for the filmmaker to stop,” Kelly famous in his order.
Tarrio claims to have stepped down as Proud Boys’ nationwide chairman.
Five different males linked to the Proud Boys — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Charles Donohoe and Dominic Pezzola — had been charged in the identical March 7 indictment as Tarrio.
Donohoe, 34, of Kernersville, North Carolina, pleaded responsible in April to conspiracy and assault costs and has agreed to cooperate within the Justice Department’s instances towards different Proud Boys members.
Nordean, Biggs, Rehl and Pezzola additionally stay jailed whereas awaiting a trial scheduled for August.
Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president. Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, has described himself as a Proud Boys organizer. Rehl was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia. The indictment describes Pezzola, of Rochester, New York, as a member of his native Proud Boys chapter.
Tarrio tried to talk with Nordean and Biggs by phone whereas the 2 males had been transferring out and in of the Capitol, the indictment says.
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