Actions by Proud Boy at Capitol show ‘planning, determination, and coordination,’ U.S. alleges

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According to prosecutors, members of the Proud Boys used walkie-talkie-style communication devices to coordinate during the attack. On Pezzola’s computer, Kenerson said, FBI agents found information on making homemade firearms, poisons and explosives.

Once inside the Capitol, authorities say, Pezzola and the Hughes brothers engaged in a confrontation with Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman at the foot of a staircase, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit, “advancing . . . in a menacing manner.” While Doug Jensen, 41, of Des Moines is identified as the “primary aggressor,” the Hughes brothers “followed immediately” behind him, the agent wrote. Pezzola, according to prosecutors, was also part of the group.

Standing beside Pezzola in a confrontation with officers inside the Capitol was Robert Gieswein, 24, a Colorado paramilitary trainer and alleged member of the anti-government Three Percenters right-wing group, according to prosecutors, who have charged Gieswein. He was also recorded multiple times inside and outside the Capitol in military gear, moving with Proud Boys, prosecutors alleged.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/brothers-charged-eugene-goodman-chase/2021/01/29/80dec868-6239-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html

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'Bomb-making manuals' found in home of Proud Boy who stormed U.S. Capitol

U.S. law enforcement agents found bomb-making instructions inside the home of a member of the Proud Boys right-wing extremist group who was charged with participating in the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol, prosecutors said on Friday.

Dominic Pezzola, 43, had "weapons- and bomb-making manuals" on a thumb drive device found within his home near Rochester, New York, prosecutors said in a court filing arguing that he should be jailed pending trial.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protests-arrests-idUSKBN29Y2Y5

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Proud Boys Leader Secretly Cooperated With F.B.I. and Police

Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the far-right nationalist group, which is under increasing scrutiny for its role in the Capitol riot, helped to convict more than a dozen people.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/nyregion/proud-boys-informant-enrique-tarrio.html