Capitol riot suspect rejects BLM, Antifa role in insurrection
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A man from Virginia was arrested Tuesday after prosecutors say he sported a cowboy hat and armed himself with a stick before striking police officers during the Capitol insurrection, sometimes aiming for their unprotected necks between their helmets and body armor.
Mellis was taken into custody without incident at his home in Williamsburg on Tuesday, Christina Pullen, a spokeswoman for the FBI Norfolk Field Office, told Fox News over the phone. He is being held at Western Tidewater Regional Jail in Suffolk before a remote bond hearing scheduled for Friday in the U.S. District Court in Norfolk. Mellis is charged with violating multiple federal laws related to assaulting and interfering with officers, knowingly entering a restricted area or building, and engaging in physical violence and abusive conduct on Capitol grounds, according to the statement of facts authored by a special agent assigned to the FBI Washington Field Office and filed in federal court on Feb. 11. The document was unsealed Tuesday.
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