Chicago (IL), Jan 13 (EFE News) .- A Chicago resident was arrested and charged on Wednesday with federal charges for having participated in the attack on the Capitol last week and posting on social networks a photograph of the looted office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
Kevin Lyons, 40, of the Gladstone Park neighborhood in the northwest of the city, was charged with a misdemeanor charge of violent entry into a public building and disorderly conduct on the Capitol premises.
As reported by the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, the arrest took place at his home. Lyons appeared in a telephone hearing with Federal Judge Gabriel Fuentes, who set him $ 10,000 bail.
As a condition of his freedom, the judge ordered him not to maintain contact with people involved in the January 6 attack or with anyone planning “any act that seeks to prevent the normal functioning of Congress” or any other federal agency.
According to the complaint filed in court, prior to the Capitol incident, Lyons had posted a message on his Instagram account saying “STOP THE ROBBERY,” referring to President Donald Trump’s claims that his November election had been stolen. past.
He also posted a map showing that he was moving from Chicago to Washington, with the caption “I refuse to tell my children that I just sat there doing nothing.” On the photograph of Pelosi’s office, she wrote “WHOM’S HOUSE? OUR HOUSE!”.
According to the complaint, in his statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, Lyons admitted to entering the Capitol but said he was dragged away by the crowd, unable to do anything to object.
Once inside, he said he had wandered through the corridors in search of an exit, until he reached the second floor and Pelosi’s office, where at that time, he said, there were about 30 people.
Lyons filmed his every move on his phone and posted the images on YouTube after returning to Chicago by car.
This is the second person from the Chicago area to be arrested and charged with participating in the attack. The first detainee was Bradley Rukstales, CEO of an engineering firm, indicted in a Washington district court last week.
This Tuesday Louis Capriotti, from the Chicago Heights suburb, was also arrested, accused of making threats against those who participated in the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on January 20.
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