Proud Boys leader pleads not guilty to conspiracy related to Jan. 6 planning
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Washington — Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right group the Proud Boys, pleaded not guilty to multiple federal felony counts on Tuesday, including conspiracy to obstruct Congress' certification of the 2020 electoral votes stemming from his alleged participation in the Capitol attack of Jan. 6, 2021.
Tarrio was arrested in Miami last month after a grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted him and five other Proud Boys members who had already been charged with other crimes connected to Jan. 6. A Florida judge ordered Tarrio detained pending trial.
He appeared virtually at an arraignment in U.S. District Court in Washington to enter his not guilty plea on Tuesday.
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