This is the second group whose members face the rare charge in the Capitol insurrection.
Highlights
- Enrique “Enrique” Tarrio, the former longtime chairman of the Proud Boys, is indicted on a new federal charge of seditious conspiracy with four top lieutenants.
- The charges expand the Justice Department’s allegations of organized plotting to oppose through violence the certification of President Biden’s election victory, culminating in the attack on the Capitol by a mob on Jan.
- 6, 2021.
- Tarrio was not in D.C.
- that day but allegedly guided activities from nearby Baltimore as Proud Boys members engaged in the earliest and most aggressive attacks to confront and overwhelm police at several critical points on restricted Capitol grounds.
- A new hearing was set for Friday.