An Olympic medalist, a waiter in combat uniform who led his mother to the assault, or a star of the world of conspiracy theories who only eats organic food.

The gallery of those arrested after the assault on the United States Congress on January 6 reflects the diversity of that ultra world that has put the world's leading power before an institutional crisis unprecedented in modern history.

The majority of those arrested whose identities have come to light are white men.

Other than that, they have little else in common than a mind in which it made sense to invade that holy building in Washington to try to prevent Democrat Joe Biden from coming to power.

The prosecutor's office for the District of Columbia (which houses the city of Washington) reported Monday that more than 70 people had already been indicted for different crimes and misdemeanors, but that the number would climb to several hundred once the investigation is completed.

Most of the known detainees are accused of breaking into buildings with restricted access, disorderly conduct or possession of unauthorized weapons, among other charges, but the justice has also put the magnifying glass on dozens of individuals for conspiracy, sedition and homicide.

A Capitol police officer was hit by a fire extinguisher.

In these last cases, the identities have not been revealed, but many others of those arrested were their own informers, appearing in multiple photographs and videos taken during the attack.

The FBI is reviewing more than 126,000 graphic documents.

Some of them posted them on social media networks.

Others were simply identified by co-workers or acquaintances who reported them.

War veteran Larry R. Brock, for example, was seen by his ex-wife and called the FBI.

Here are some of their stories:

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• Larry R. Brock

• Aaron Mostofsky

• Richard "Bigo" Barnett

• Jacob Anthony Chansley

• Eric Gavelek Munchel

• Klete keller

• Lonnie L. Coffman

• Josiah Colt

• Adam Johnson

• Nicholas Rodean

• Robert Keith Packer

• Derrick Evans

• Robert Sanford

• Christine Priola

• Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson

• Kevin Seefried

Click on the assailants to know them

• Larry R. Brock

• Aaron Mostofsky

• Richard "Bigo" Barnett

• Jacob Anthony Chansley

• Eric Gavelek Munchel

• Klete keller

• Lonnie L. Coffman

• Josiah Colt

• Adam Johnson

• Nicholas Rodean

• Robert Keith Packer

• Derrick Evans

• Robert Sanford

• Christine Priola

• Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson

• Kevin Seefried

Larry R. Brock

A 53-year-old war veteran, he carried zip ties like those used by the police to tie up.

His ex-wife recognized him and reported him

CRIMES

He is charged with two counts, one for having entered restricted-access buildings without authorization and deliberately;

and another of violent entry and rowdy behavior on Capitol Hill.

This 53-year-old war veteran from Texas was reported by his ex-wife.

After 18 years of marriage, she recognized Brock's rosy face under the green helmet in a photograph and called the FBI.

"When I saw that this was happening I was afraid that he would be there," the woman said on January 8 to the agent who treated her, according to the statement that accompanies the criminal complaint.

The man was dressed like a special operations military man, wearing camouflage clothing and disturbing plastic zip ties like those used by police to arrest and restrain individuals.

He was seen in different videos inside the plenary hall and also leaving the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.

According to

The New Yorker

, he is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who lives in a suburb of Dallas and, by his own account, had served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He was arrested on January 9 in Texas.

Aaron Mostofsky

The 34-year-old son of a Brooklyn judge, he came dressed in animal skins and posed holding the shield of a Capitol police officer

CRIMES

He faces four federal charges, including trespassing, disorderly conduct and theft of public property, which can carry up to 10 years in prison.

There was something endearing about his photo, disguised as a caveman in a bulletproof vest, sitting behind a shield of a Capitol policeman, as if trying to understand the one he had messed with after a bad mushroom trip at the Burning Man. Aaron Mostofsky, 34, , is the son of a Brooklyn judge.

"They misled us," he said in an interview with The New York Post this morning, "I don't think 75 million people voted for Trump, I think it was more like 85 million."

Richard Barnett, aka Bigo

He is 60 years old, is a regular at Republican rallies and left a note for the Speaker of the House: "We will not back down"

CRIMES

He is charged with stealing public property, disorderly conduct on Capitol Hill, and entering an access building with a dangerous weapon.

It can carry you penalties of up to 11 years in prison.

She walked into the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and was photographed with an aide's feet on the table and a smug smile.

Barnett, 60, a resident of a town of 3,000 inhabitants of Arkansas, is an active supporter of President Trump with a great fondness for the spotlight, so much that he can land him in prison.

On January 6, leaving the Capitol, he showed the media a letter from Pelosi addressed to a congressman that he had stolen as a trophy and bragged that he had left a coin and a note in which he said: "WE WILL NOT BACKWARD" .

What he didn't brag about so much was that he was carrying an electroshock weapon.

That emerged on Tuesday, during his first appearance in court, by videoconference.

Jacob Anthony Chansley, aka Jake Angeli

A well-known character from the conspiratorial universe of Qanon.

In jail he has warned that he can only eat organic food

CRIMES

He is charged with five counts, one of having entered a restricted-access building without authorization;

another of violent entry and rowdy conduct on the Capitol grounds;

obstruction of official procedure, rowdy behavior in a restricted building and demonstration inside the Capitol.

They will also know him by "the bison".

That is the way in which the universe of social networks began to refer to Chansley when his particular image began to circulate: antlers, bearskin headdress, bare chest and his face painted in the colors of the American flag: red , blue and white.

On January 7, the day after the assault, he surrendered to the FBI in Washington and declared that he had come to the capital in a group of "patriots" from Arizona in response to the appeal of President Trump, who had asked all " patriots ”to go to town.

Angeli, 33, is a well-known character in the far-right conspiracy scene, in which he also calls himself Q Shaman for his work disseminating the hoaxes of QAnon, the mother movement of conspiracy theories in the United States.

He has his own YouTube channel and a diet that no one would expect from a male goat: he only eats organic food.

In the first hearing before the judge last Monday, his mother, Martha Chansley explained that her son "gets sick, physically sick" if he eats non-organic food, so he had been fasting since his arrest.

Eric Gavelek Munchel

He wore bridles, a stun gun, and impeccable bridle combat attire.

He is 30 years old and went to the Capitol with his mother

CRIMES

He faces charges of violent trespassing into a public building and disorderly conduct.

He was seen walking on the seats of the Senate balcony, dressed in an impeccable combat uniform, with a stun gun at his belt, a mobile strapped to his chest with the camera facing forward, and a handful of bridles in his left hand.

While other assailants took selfies or defecated in the aisles, this 30-year-old Nashville bartender appeared to be following a sinister plan.

In another image released by the FBI on Sunday, he is seen alongside a 57-year-old woman, revealing something no less disturbing: Munchel had brought his mother into the revolution.

Klete keller

Olympic ex-swimmer, twice gold medalist and former teammate of Phelps, embodies the fall into hell of an elite athlete

CRIMES

He faces three charges: obstruction of law enforcement, unauthorized entry into restricted buildings, and one of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

An Olympic medalist, twice gold in swimming as a teammate of Michael Phelps' relay team, was part of the Trump mob.

It was not difficult to notice him in the videos in which they appeared: at 1.98 meters tall, his head was sticking out of the mass and his racing colleagues had little more trouble ascertaining who he was and calling the policeman (even though he had grown a beard): he chose to make the revolution wearing the official jacket of the Games.

In a statement to the public radio station NPR, USA Swimming, the federal agency responsible for competitive swimming, stressed: “Although at the time he has been one of the highest level swimmers, representing the country and the democracy that has voluntarily attacked, Mr. Keller has not been a member of this organization since 2008 ”.

He had won medals in Athens, Sydney, and Beijing.

He now worked for a real estate firm in Colorado, from which he resigned after the fact.

Lonnie L. Coffman

Pistols, an assault rifle, Molotov cocktails, machetes, a crossbow ... He carried a real arsenal and a mysterious notebook

CRIMES

He is charged with at least 16 crimes related to the possession of firearms in Washington DC.

The FBI found in his station wagon 11 Molotov cocktails loaded with gasoline and liquid polystyrene, a pistol, an assault rifle, numerous magazines filled with five varieties of ammunition, various machetes, a crossbow, a stun gun and smoke bombs.

When they searched him, they found two other pistols.

Prosecutors who indicted Coffman, a 70-year-old Alabama native, say that he "seemed motivated to exercise violence against elected representatives" and that the volume of the arsenal suggests that "his intention was to provide weapons to others, since no person he can reasonably use so many weapons at once. "

He had a notepad with quotes from Abraham Lincoln and alleged contact details for Fox News stars and Senator Ted Cruz.

Josiah Colt

He is from Idaho, he is 33 years old and this week he was apologetic before the judge: “I just wanted my voice to be heard”

CRIMES

He is charged with two counts: trespassing into a restricted building without authorization and trespassing and disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds.

Dressed in black, with a helmet and knee pads, halfway between Spiderman and Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible - but somewhat more lush - Josiah Colt slid off the balcony of the Senate Chamber and landed in the living room.

Then he posed for posterity sitting in the chair of the presidency, which the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, had occupied for a few moments before being evacuated.

The feat had a but.

This thirty-year-old from Idaho was convinced that he had managed to occupy the chair of the “traitor” Nancy Pelosi and thus praised it on social networks.

He was in the wrong room.

He was arrested on Tuesday, January 12, and released the following day pending trial.

To the local KTVB station he declared ruefully: "I just wanted my voice to be heard calling for a fair election, but it became tragic and I did not want that to happen at all."

Adam Johnson

A 36-year-old Florida resident wanted to take Nancy Pelosi's lectern as a trophy and was photographed with him in her arms

CRIMES

He has been charged with one count of knowingly and illegally breaking into a restricted-access building, another with theft of public property, and one with disorderly conduct.

Johnson, 36, wearing a pom-pom ski hat, thought it was a good idea to remove Nancy Pelosi's lectern and pose with him for a photo, smiling and waving at the camera.

He was arrested on Friday at his home in Parrish (Florida) and on Monday he appeared before the federal judge in shorts, a T-shirt and flip-flops, in the purest style of the Note from

The Big Lebowski,

with whom he also shares, judging by his cited legal background in the local press, the love of marijuana.

Unemployed, his lawyers assure that his family needs him at home to take care of their children, take them to school and do the shopping.

Nicholas Rodean

He stormed the Capitol with a large Trump flag and his work credential, which identified him and fired him

CRIMES

He has been charged with five counts: deliberately and unauthorized breaking into a restricted-access building, attempting to impede administrative operations, engaging in disruptive conduct on the Capitol grounds, and demonstrating and participating in a picket line at the Congress buildings. .

It is not clear if he was leaving or returning from work, but Nicholas Rodean stormed the Capitol with a Trump cap and flag, a computer briefcase and, for some difficult to understand reason, his company identification card hanging from his chest.

This, a digital marketing company from Frederick, Maryland, fired him;

he turned himself in to the FBI and the justice system attributes a string of charges to him.

He became one of the most popular faces of that fateful day because he appeared alongside the striking Jack Angeli, a prominent figure in the Qanon conspiracy movement who was dressed in furs, shirtless and face painted.

The bison.

Robert Keith Packer

56-year-old Virginia neighbor wore a sweatshirt with the name of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz

CRIMES

He is accused of knowingly and unauthorized trespassing into a federal building and disorderly conduct.

The picture went around the world.

A man with a long beard, inside the Capitol, wearing a black sweatshirt with a skull and the words "Camp Auschwitz", accompanied by the legend of "Work frees" that adorned the entrance to the Nazi concentration camp where the 1.1 million people during World War II.

It was Robert Parker, 56, a resident of the town of Newport News (Virginia), where he was arrested the same Wednesday.

Derrick Evans

A fan of harassing women seeking abortions, he was elected to the West Virginia Legislative Lower House in November

CRIMES

He is accused of knowingly and unauthorized trespassing into a federal building and disorderly conduct.

Evans, 35, became a Republican member of the West Virginia lower house in the November elections, a position from which he resigned on Saturday after storming the Capitol in Washington and recording himself on the spot with his mobile.

“We are inside!

Derrick Evans is inside the Capitol! ”, He shouted in the video that it would be difficult for him to be outside the Capitol of his State.

"The last few days have certainly been difficult for my family, my colleagues and myself," he said in his resignation letter.

"I take full responsibility for my actions."

Before storming the Capitol, according to

The Washington Post

this weekend

, Evans was fond of harassing and exposing women on social media who attended the only abortion clinic left in West Virginia.

Robert Sanford

55-year-old retired firefighter was seen throwing a fire extinguisher at police.

His lawyer says he got carried away by the mob

CRIMES

Held without bail, he faces charges of assault on a police officer, rowdy behavior on Capitol grounds, barred entry to the Capitol, and public disorder.

He was seen in one of the videos of the assault grasping a fire extinguisher in his hands and throwing it at police outside the Capitol.

By ironies of life, the subject is a retired firefighter only a year ago.

Robert Sanford, 55, worked for the Fire Department in Chester, a county outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

When he returned from the getaway to Washington, a friend said that he had spent about 10 minutes in the congressional esplanade and left, but without mentioning the detail of the extinguisher.

This friend saw the images later, recognized Sanford, and decided to call the police.

The former firefighter turned himself in to police last Thursday.

According to his lawyer told the Associated Press, Sanford "got carried away by the mob mentality."

His case is not related to the death of the agent who was also allegedly attacked with a fire extinguisher.

Christine Priola

Cleveland occupational therapist, 49, resigned the day after the assault protesting vaccines

CRIMES

He is charged with knowingly and unauthorized entering a federal building, disorderly conduct and illegal activity on the Capitol complex.

An educator by profession and a fan of conspiracy theories, Christine Priola prowled the Senate Chamber with a sign that read in capital red letters: "Children cry out for justice."

She is 49 years old and an occupational therapist in the Cleveland (Ohio) school district.

Or rather it was.

The day after the assault, he resigned with a letter to which Fox8News had access and in which he argued that he did not plan to take the coronavirus vaccine to return to face-to-face teaching, which would not stop exposing the global evil of pedophilia and human trafficking , included in the government itself, and that rejected the approach of its union to help groups that support abortion.

A week later, last Thursday, they arrested her.

Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson

Police officers from a town in Virginia and Army veterans, one of whom boasted of having "managed to take Cpaitolio in one day"

CRIMES

They each face charges of trespassing into a restricted public building and disorderly conduct.

Two of the many members of the security forces who participated in the assault.

Robertson and Fracker are Rocky Mount, Virginia, police officers who were off duty the day of the assault.

They are both Army veterans.

After entering the Capitol, they took a selfie in front of the statue of General John Stark, a hero of the American War of Independence, while one of them makes a comb with his left hand.

Robertson boasted on social media of having managed to "take the Capitol in one day" and of having "left his skin in the game."

"CNN and the left are angry that we have actually attacked the state," he continued.

Kevin Seefried

She came with her son, carrying a huge Confederate flag that adorns the front of her Delaware home

CRIMES

Seefried and his son each face charges of trespassing into a restricted public building and disruptive conduct, as well as destruction of federal property.

He was photographed in the Capitol carrying a large Confederate flag.

Emblem of the losing side of the Civil War that, according to what he told the federated agents, normally flies in the entrance of his house in Laurel (Delaware).

It is the first time that someone has introduced the flag into Congress as an act of insurrection, according to historians quoted by The New York Times.

Seefried came to the assault with his son, Hunter, who later bragged about what he had done by talking to a co-worker, who was the one who gave them away.

They entered the Capitol through a window that the son helped break.

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