Joining @DeadlineWH shortly to discuss the Jan. 6 investigation and the FBI’s revealing interview with Danny Rodriguez, the MAGA fanatic who electroshocked D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Mike Fanone.
After they nabbed D.J. Rodriguez (aka #TaserPrick) in March, the FBI told him that “antifa, BLM, and the Huffington Post” were “telling the Danny Rodriguez story” and that he should talk to them to get his story out there. huffpost.com/entry/danny-ro…
Danny Rodriguez went on to call himself “not smart,” “so stupid,” “an asshole,” and a “fucking piece of shit.” huffpost.com/entry/danny-ro…
Here’s our story identifying Danny Rodriguez in February, a month before his arrest. huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
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Police were so overwhelmed on Jan. 6 that they couldn’t make arrests.
But after Robert Wayne Dennis assaulted police, they got his name, address, social security number, and checked his ID. They told him they’d apply for a warrant later. He was arrested in Texas.
"your Affiant observed DENNIS charging MPD Officer J.S., and DENNIS is shown grabbing another MPD Officer's baton with both hands. DENNIS then struggles violently with MPD Officer J.S. and takes him to the ground.”
Robert Wayne Dennis was known to sleuths as #UnholyGoalie.
Cops released him "so that he could seek medical treatment that officers were unable to provide due to the ongoing riot.”
They had his name, SSN, and address, but he still ended up on a MPD “Persons of Interest” slide.
A hearing is underway for Jan. 6 defendant Anthime Joseph Gionet, aka “Baked Alaska.”
A pretrial services officer from Arizona is on the line, saying he violated his conditions. Pretrial is asking for him to be removed from the program. That would mean he’d be held pretrial.
Arizona pretrial services officer says Gionet moved to Clearwater, Florida. She says he reported 19 different trips around the country, but only reported his move to Arizona three weeks after he signed a lease in Florida.
Arizona pretrial services can’t continue monitoring a defendant who is no longer living in the state. The timing of the move and notification date is the issue here.
“There does seem to be a compliance issue,” says Mag. Judge G. M. Harvey.
This is from a few months ago, but boy did the feds botch their interpretation of this anti-Biden sticker at the home of a Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on video forcibly breaching the police lines and bragged about “fighting cops and shit.”
Anyway, Paul Russell Johnson was in court today trying to sever his case from Stephen Chase Randolph, who was tracked down thanks to a facial recognition hit on his girlfriend’s public Instagram page: huffpost.com/entry/facial-r…
Johnson’s lawyers wrote that he faced "soul-crushing anxiety” and that the government wrongfully labeled him a “Three Percenter.”
He did have a "III" sticker and a bunch of weapons at his home.
Josiah Colt — the Capitol rioter who seemed to confuse the House chamber (400+ seats, says “House” everywhere) for the Senate chamber (100 desks, says “Senate” everywhere) — is set to make a court appearance. He pleaded guilty to felony Obstruction and is cooperating with feds.
His statement of facts indicated that Colt did want to go to the Senate, although he later claimed he was “the first person to sit in what he mistakenly described as the House Speaker’s chair.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Cooperation component: "Your client shall testify fully, completely and truthfully before any and all Grand Juries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere…” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Judge Amy B. Jackson: “I’m not sure I can derive much comfort from the fact that the defendant is only alleged to have participated in one insurrection while armed in between January and his arrest in July.”
Darrell Neely, a right-winger who hosted a show on something called the “Global Enlightenment Radio Network,” has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. Feds say he wore a stolen U.S. Capitol Police hat in a YouTube video on Jan. 7.
"NEELY displayed china plates that he insinuated were from the Capitol building and a jacket that he claimed was a U.S. Capitol Police jacket.” Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
You look at so many of these Facebook pages of the Jan. 6 defendants, and it’s clear they’re just like shouting into the void. Prolific posters, but little if any engagement.