Featured image of post Ex-Virginia police officer and West Virginia lawmaker plead guilty in Capitol riot

Ex-Virginia police officer and West Virginia lawmaker plead guilty in Capitol riot

Jacob Fracker, who has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors, was fired from his job as a police officer in Rocky Mount, Virginia while Derrick Evans resigned from the West Virginia state legislature before the session started.

ยท 1643 points

Jacob Fracker, who has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors, was fired from his job as a police officer in Rocky Mount, Virginia while Derrick Evans resigned from the West Virginia state legislature before the session started.

Highlights

  • Jacob Fracker pleads guilty to conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress that convened on January 6, 2021, to certify President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
  • A former West Virginia state lawmaker pleaded guilty Friday to a civil disorder charge, punishable by up to five years in prison.
  • A Texas man who was “forgotten” by the court system after his arrest on riot-related charges pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer with a pole on Thursday.
  • He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 22 and a former state lawmaker is also charged with civil disorder in the Capitol riot that took place in Washington, D.C., in January 2021.