A Crown Point man has now joined the more than 1,000 rioters charged in the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, violent protesters, loyal to then-President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Two Seattle police officers who were in Washington, D.C., during the January 6 insurrection were illegally trespassing on Capitol grounds while rioters stormed the building, but lied about their actions, a police watchdog said in a report released Thursday, July 8, 2021.
Gregory Mijares, 41, has been charged in the District of Columbia with a felony offense of civil disorder and misdemeanor offenses of entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds and disruptive conduct in any restricted building or grounds, the office of U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves said in a release Friday. Mijares was arrested in Crown Point September 8 and made his initial appearance at the U.S.
Officers tried to push Mijares back using a riot shield, at which point he pushed back against the shield and other rioters started fighting the officers, records said. Mijares then was able to grab a baton with which an officer hit him. This case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section; Valparaiso-based attorney Matthew Soliday has been appointed as Mijares’s public defender, according to court records.
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