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The FBI arrests a former marine for assaulting two police officers during the assault on the US Capitol

Pro-Trump protesters storming the Capitol. – MICHAEL NIGRO / ZUMA PRESS / CONTACTOPHOTO

The FBI has arrested Kaleb Dillard, a former member of the United States Marine Corps, on Tuesday for participating in the insurrection of January 6, 2021 in Washington during which he assaulted two Capitol police officers.

Dillard, 26, has been arrested in his hometown, Columbiana, in the state of Alabama. He is charged with assault, resisting, obstruction of authority, as well as six other misdemeanor counts, NBC reports.

His arrest has been possible thanks to a series of messages on social networks in which he himself confirmed that he was one of the people who appeared during the assault. The agents have also managed to recognize the person who allegedly attacked them. One of them said that Dillard had tried to intimidate him with his past in the Marine Corps.

Dillard is one of the more than 850 suspects who have been arrested for their participation in that riot in which it is estimated that some 2,500 people participated, among which there are several hundreds who are wanted and arrested for also attacking the overwhelmed agents who they came at first.

So far, more than 350 people have pleaded guilty to those riots. The main accusation that prosecutors have presented is that of illegally entering a restricted place, about 640; while the rest of the most recurrent charges are for assault or resistance to authority.

At the moment the highest sentences are Thomas Robertson, a former police officer, and Guy Refitt, both sentenced to about seven years in prison.

Source: Europa Press

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