Thread by @alanfeuer

This is Thread #4 of updates on the Capitol insurrection arrests and cases. The other three are embedded below.

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Prosecutors are now saying that Michael Foy, a Michigan man arrested for assaulting police officers at the Capitol with a hockey stick, beat at least 10 cops, including some who were downed, also threw a sharpened pole at them.

According to new court papers, Foy, a former Marine trained in combat, engaged in some of the most violent conduct at the Capitol riot.

Prosecutors also say that Foy attended a post-election demonstration on Nov. 6 protesting the vote count at the TCF Center in Detroit that nearly became violent as a crowd massed outside the doors.
He is known to drink as many as 10 beers a day and has access to firearms.

Tommy F. Allen, of Rocklin, Calif., was caught on video confessing that he stole papers from Mitch McConnell's desk while storming the Capitol, new court papers say.
Allan also posted a pic of militiamen outside the building, commenting, "These are my people. PATRIOTS!"

NEW: Prosecutors have charged Brandon Straka, the formal liberal who launched the WalkAway campaign, with encouraging a mob outside the Capitol to talk a riot shield from a cop.
"Take it!" Straka yelled, according to the FBI. "Take it!"

Straka was a speaker at a "Stop the Steal" rally one day before the Capitol incursion, the FBI says.
He claims in a video posted onto Twitter that the plan on Jan. 6 was always to go to the Capitol after hearing Trump speak.

Prosecutors in Detroit are now in court asking a federal judge to detain Michael J. Foy, accused of beating police at the Capitol with a hockey stick.

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Prosecutors in Detroit are showing video clips from police body cams of Michael Foy attacking cops at the Capitol w/a hockey stick.
It's vivid footage: a scrum of bodies, flailing arms & legs, and over the top of it, the hockey stick coming down on the officers.

The government says that Foy, who served 5 years in the Marine Corps, has a significant drinking habit (10 beers a day) and suffers from depression & PTSD.

Foy's court-appointed atty says that he, like other vets, had a hard time coming home after discharge. He'd recently enrolled in college for a biz degree but his treatment for PTSD wasn't working. He's been maintaining mountain bike trails in the meantime, the lawyer says.

NEW: Federal judge in Detroit detains Michael J. Foy on charges of wielding a hockey stick to beat numerous police officers at the Capitol.
Only about a dozen of the nearly 150 defendants charged so far in connection w/storming Congress have been held in custody pending trial.

After William Vogel, of Pawling NY, sent a Snapchat to a pal from inside the Capitol, the pal asked, "Did you take that?"
Vogel said he did, the FBI says, adding, "They're trying to put me away for 10 years for Domestic Terrorism...And didn’t even film anything crime wise.”

Bryan Gundersen of Armonk, NY, wore his high school varsity jacket to the riot at the Capitol, the FBI says, making it relatively easy for agents to track him down. According to a witness, Gundersen is an avid supporter of both Trump & the Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

In his goggled sunglasses and black cowboy hat, Matthew R. Miller of Maryland shot a fire extinguisher at the cops guarding the Capitol, the FBI says. He was also captured in photos scaling the walls of the building w/a Gadsden flag tied around his neck, court papers say.

Prosecutors say Joshua Wagner (left) drove from Indiana w/his buddy Israel Tutrow & into the Capitol on 1/6. When Wagner's pic showed up in an FBI Be on the Lookout alert, he told a friend he was "very scared & worried."
Tutrow told the same person that he was "sick w/anxiety."

Driving to the Capitol riot from Florida, the FBI says, Dave Winn made a FB video w/his girlfriend, Rachel Pert, an asst manager at a local Circle K. After urging America to "wake up," Winn noted he'd brought along a flagpole.
"That way I can hit antifa in the head if need be."

The FBI was able to identify James Bonet, of Glen Falls NY, as one of the Capitol insurrectionists in part b/c he posted a Facebook video of himself smoking weed inside.
"Smoking at the capital building," his caption read.

Seeking to keep Lisa Eisenhart, a Nashville nurse & mother of Zip Tie Guy in custody, prosecutors release a startling list of accusations against her.
Among other things they say she cheered insurgents who punched cops & grabbed zip ties as people went looking for politicians.

Eisenhart, 57, showed up at the Capitol "dressed for combat" in a bulletproof vest and stashed her weapons before entering the building, prosecutors say.
“We’re going straight to federal prison if we go in there with weapons,” she told her son.

When federal agents tracked down Jeffrey Sabol, of New City, NY, to question him about punching a cop at the Capitol and pressing a baton against him, he told them he was merely "patting" the officer on the back and trying to protect him w/the baton.

The FBI says Chance Uptmore went to the Capitol w/his father James as part a 5-day DC birthday trip from Texas. While in the building, Chance wrote in a social media post, the cops inside greeted the rioters with "stuff like ‘we stand with you’" and "thanks for being here."

Coming up in Washington DC: a hearing for Dominic Pezzola, the former Marine and Proud Boy charged w/helping lead the riot at the Capitol by smashing open a window w/a plastic police shield.

The judge is rescheduling this hearing now...