3 years after Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Trump trial takes center stage, and investigators still search for offenders

Washington — In the three years since members of a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, attacked police and forced members of Congress from their legislative seats, investigators have embarked on the largest federal prosecution in American history, securing convictions against individuals charged with a rare Civil War-era sedition count and accusing a former president of conspiring against the United States. 

In all, more than 1,200 defendants have been charged with crimes stemming from their alleged participation in the Jan. 6 2021 attack, according to a CBS News review of court records, with alleged crimes ranging from illegal picketing inside the Capitol to assaults on officers and destruction of government property. 

Over 700 of those defendants have pleaded guilty to crimes and accepted responsibility — a majority of them for misdemeanors that carry minimal prison time — and more than 100 have been convicted at jury or bench trials in Washington, D.C.