NEW: 20-year-old Nicholas James Brockhoff of Covington, Kentucky, arrested on Capitol attack charges. #GreenHornHoodlum
So.
The FBI really wanted to find Nick Brockhoff for obvious reasons. They added him to their list about two months after the attack and even produced a video to get more publicity.
Here’s the thing: It turns out he told officers his name — on body cam — on Jan. 6.
Kenneth Joseph Owen Thomas of Alabama — who allegedly went by “Pi Annon” and identified himself as the organizer of a “Maga Caravan” to D.C. — was arrested yesterday on a host of federal charges. #tanoncamo
FBI doesn’t specify precisely when they got a tip, but it just dawned on me that I heard about him (and watched a bunch of his YouTube videos) months ago. Too many suspects! (He’s from Ohio, but was arrested in Alabama.)
UPDATE: state Sen. Doug Mastriano (who propagated Trump's Big Lie) was photographed on at least three separate occasions with a Trump fanatic who bragged about macing cops on Jan. 6 and is wanted by the FBI. Nov., Dec. (in D.C.) and May (Giuliani event). huffpost.com/entry/samuel-l…
I want to be transparent here: I made a mistake. Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano has actually been photographed with a violent insurrectionist on the FBI’s Capitol wanted list on at least five occasions, not at least three times as I previously stated. Regret the error.
Additionally, the Mastriano-Giuliani event earlier this month was not the first Mastriano-Giuliani event that Samuel Lazar attended. He was also at that "hearing” in November. I always appreciate constructive criticism, please never hesitate to reach out.
Quick story. You may remember Taylor Michael Wilson, a white supremacist sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for an attack on an Amtrak train. huffpost.com/entry/neo-nazi…
Wilson attended the Unite the Right rally in Charleston, had a secret compartment with ammunition and white supremacist literature behind his fridge, and said during the attack that he wanted to “save the train from black people.” huffpost.com/entry/white-su…
It was a rare upfront, straightforward federal terrorism case against a domestic extremist, and it illustrated differences in the law / in the feds’ approach to domestic versus foreign terrorism. huffpost.com/entry/jeff-ses…
Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano — seen recently posing for a photo with a fellow Trump enthusiast on the FBI’s Capitol wanted list — claimed he and his wife never crossed the police line on Jan. 6. Let’s roll the tape: huffpost.com/entry/doug-mas…
Kevin Loftus, who helpfully identified himself on the FBI’s wanted list and was arrested less than a week after Jan. 6, has a status conference hearing at 10 a.m. today.