2024-01-06 19:00:14
Arrested at a ranch. Jonathan Pollock, Olivia Pollock and Joseph Hutchinson were arrested early Saturday in Groveland, Florida, the FBI said in a statement, three years to the day after the assault on the Capitol in the United States.
All three are suspected of having participated in this assault on January 6, 2021. They will appear Monday in federal court in the city of Ocala, located in the center of the peninsula. They are being prosecuted in particular for assault on civil servants, disturbing public order within the Capitol grounds and violent intrusion without authorization.
Police offered a $30,000 reward for information leading to the location of Jonathan Pollock, a 24-year-old welder “considered [comme] armed and dangerous.”
More than 1,200 people charged
In 35 months of a sprawling investigation still ongoing, the American authorities have charged more than 1,200 people, in almost the 50 states of the country, for their participation in the insurrection of January 6, 2021. More than half have been convicted.
These rioters opposed the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election on November 3, 2020. Donald Trump has never acknowledged his defeat in this election and vigorously denies having incited his supporters to attack the seat of Congress.
The central question of his responsibility in this historic event, from which his possible ineligibility for the 2024 presidential election could result, will be examined on February 8 by the Supreme Court. For the moment, he remains the big favorite in the Republican primaries. According to a survey published this week, carried out jointly by the Washington Post and the University of Maryland, 39% of Americans believe that the assault on the Capitol was the result of a plot hatched by the FBI.
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