Oath Keepers founder Elmer Rhodes will be held in custody until a detention hearing next Thursday in Plano. He was arrested on charges he plotted with others to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.
The founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group remained in jail after his first court appearance on Friday, a day after his arrest on charges he plotted with others to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.
Rhodes appeared in court on Friday wearing heavy boots, blue jeans, a faded black Carhartt T-shirt and a blue medical mask. He walked into the courtroom shackled at the wrists and ankles. That’s what the United States alleges against North Texan Elmer Rhodes and 10 others for their roles in the U.S. Capitol riot.The government charges Rhodes, Oath Keepers founder and leader, with communicating with others through encrypted messaging. Even though there is no evidence that he entered the Capitol, the complaint says he "...conspired with his co-defendants ...to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power...
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