Crime
WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities are trying to find a member of the Proud Boys extremist group who disappeared days earlier than his sentencing in a U.S. Capitol riot case, the place prosecutors are in search of greater than a decade in jail, in accordance with a warrant made public Friday.
Christopher Worrell, 52, of Naples, Florida, was alleged to be sentenced Friday after being discovered responsible of spraying pepper spray gel on cops, as a part of the mob storming the Capitol as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors had requested a choose to condemn him to 14 years.
The sentencing was canceled and a bench warrant for his arrest issued underneath seal on Tuesday, in accordance with courtroom data. The U.S. lawyer’s workplace for Washington, D.C., inspired the general public to share any details about his whereabouts.
Worrell had been on home arrest in Florida since his launch from jail in Washington in November 2021, lower than a month after a choose substantiated his civil-rights complaints about his remedy within the jail.
U.S. District Choose Royce Lamberth discovered Worrell’s medical look after a damaged hand had been delayed, and held D.C. jail officers in contempt of courtroom.
His lawyer William Shipley declined to remark. Telephone numbers listed for Worrell and the girl named as his custodian throughout his home arrest weren’t purposeful.
Greater than three dozen folks charged within the Capitol siege have been recognized by federal authorities as leaders, members or associates of the Proud Boys, whose members describe it as a politically incorrect males’s membership for “Western chauvinists.”
Former Proud Boys chief Enrique Tarrio and three different members of the extremist group have been convicted of seditious conspiracy in Could.
A complete of about 1,000 folks have been charged with federal crimes associated to the Jan. 6 riot. Greater than 600 of them have pleaded responsible or been convicted after trials determined by a jury or choose. About 600 have been sentenced, with over half getting phrases of imprisonment starting from three days to 18 years.