A Chicago man was arrested Tuesday on federal charges alleging he illegally breached the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and later bragged to a friend.
A man was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday on federal charges alleging he illegally breached the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and later bragged to a friend he’d been hit with tear gas and mace by police “but I still stayed on the front lines.”
According to the charges, Zoyganeles had planned on traveling to Washington for weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, messaging one friend in December 2020 he was “down for whatever.”About 10 days after the attack, a tipster gave the FBI a screenshot of Zoyganeles’ Facebook profile and said he had posted a “very creepy video of him in the Capitol saying ‘Nazis, where are you??’ ” the complaint alleged.
Zoyganeles was seen in another camera angle standing on the Capitol steps holding a piece of wood and smoking a cigarette, the complaint alleged. In October, the FBI met with a close relative of Zoyganeles, who confirmed he was the person in the surveillance images, according to the complaint.