Washington: One of the supporters of President Donald Trump who entered the US Capitol on January 6 has been arrested and charged with trespassing and interfering with the certification of the 2020 vote.
Brandon Fellows, 26, of upstate New York, was arrested late on Saturday “for his role in last week’s riot and assault on the Capitol building,” according to a statement posted by the FBI’s Albany branch on Twitter.
Violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump are confronted by US Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol, during the riots. Credit:AP
Fellows previously said he had “no regrets” for having entered the Capitol through a broken window, roaming the halls, and smoking a joint in the office of Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon.
Calls to Fellows’ mobile phone went straight to his voice mail. In his recording, Fellows says he turned himself in “for supporting the constitution,” and that he’s committed to continuing his fight against, “our overreaching government that has told us that we cannot go out and work, that we cannot go out to see our family, that we cannot even leave our house. I am happily being punished for that.”
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Washington: One of the supporters of President Donald Trump who entered the US Capitol on January 6 has been arrested and charged with trespassing and interfering with the certification of the 2020 vote.
Brandon Fellows, 26, of upstate New York, was arrested late on Saturday “for his role in last week’s riot and assault on the Capitol building,” according to a statement posted by the FBI’s Albany branch on Twitter.
Violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump are confronted by US Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol, during the riots. Credit:AP
Fellows previously said he had “no regrets” for having entered the Capitol through a broken window, roaming the halls, and smoking a joint in the office of Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon.
Calls to Fellows’ mobile phone went straight to his voice mail. In his recording, Fellows says he turned himself in “for supporting the constitution,” and that he’s committed to continuing his fight against, “our overreaching government that has told us that we cannot go out and work, that we cannot go out to see our family, that we cannot even leave our house. I am happily being punished for that.”
