FBI searches alleged Jan. 6 rioter's home ahead of Donald Trump's return to presidency
The Justice Department recently searched an alleged Jan. 6 rioter's house as it works to wrap up Capitol attack cases before Donald Trump takes office.
WASHINGTON — With less than 50 days until President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House again, the Justice Department continues to prosecute and arrest Jan. 6 rioters, even as Trump has said he’ll pardon an unknown number of the more than 1,500 people charged in connection with the attack.
There are still more than 90 people on the FBI’s Capitol Violence page, which features photos of the bureau’s most wanted rioters, who have been identified to the FBI but not yet arrested, online sleuths told NBC News. And the sleuths, who have aided in those cases, have identified hundreds more rioters who weren’t featured on the Capitol Violence page and may never face justice.
With little time left, the Justice Department plans to focus on arresting and prosecuting the “most egregious” cases, particularly those of people who would be charged with felony assault on law enforcement, a law enforcement official told NBC News last month.
Among them is a man whom online sleuths say they long ago identified as a rioter, who assaulted police officers and has gone unarrested for years. The FBI searched a residential address associated with the man in recent weeks, NBC News has learned.
The rioter is known to online “sedition hunters” as “Old Double Shot,” a nickname he earned because he can be seen on video of the Jan. 6 attack “double-fisting spray canisters” that he appeared to use to assault police officers with chemical spray on the west front of the U.S. Capitol. Video later emerged showing someone who appears to be the same man, wearing a Trump camo hat and a T-shirt he wore on his back like a cape, attacking police with a pole as the mob forced its way up the stairs and closer to the Capitol.
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