A man who was widely photographed in a horned hat during the riots in the US Capitol last week is in custody on charges that include violent entry and disorderly conduct, it has been reported.
Jacob Anthony Chansley, who is also known as Jake Angeli is known to be a prominent follower of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, the BBC reports.
Mr Chansley, who apparently refers to himself as the QAnon Shaman, is believed to be the man who was widely pictured with a painted face, fur hat and horns during the violent riots inside Congress on Wednesday.
A statement from the federal attorney for Washington DC reads in part:
"Jacob Anthony Chansley, a.k.a. Jake Angeli, of Arizona, was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Chansley was taken into custody today.
"It is alleged that Chansley was identified as the man seen in media coverage who entered the Capitol building dressed in horns, a bearskin headdress, red, white and blue face paint, shirtless, and tan pants.
"This individual carried a spear, approximately 6 feet in length, with an American flag tied just below the blade."
Meanwhile, it was reported yesterday that the Capitol rioter seen carrying Nancy Pelosi's lectern in viral image had been arrested.
Florida authorities said that they had arrested 36-year-old Adam Johnson of Parrish, Florida and that he is now being held at Pinellas County Jail pending charges.
Johnson is believed to be the man who appears in a viral photograph taken during Wednesday's raid of the Capitol, where he is seen grinning and waving at the camera while holding the lectern in his right arm, per investigators.
Johnson was clean shaven in his mugshot, whereas in the image in question he sported a beard and was wearing a wool hat with "Trump" emblazoned on it.
Another individual who was photographed sitting in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office with his foot on her desk during the Capitol riots has also been arrested, it is widely reported.
Per CNBC, Richard Barnett was apprehended in Arkansas and charged with "entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry, and theft of public property".
Photographs of Barnett sat in Speaker Pelosi's office with his foot up on her desk quickly went viral as a demonstration of the chaos that was unfolding inside the Capitol on Wednesday.
Barnett, 60, is said to have bragged to reporters about how he had broken into Pelosi's office.
“I wrote her a nasty note, put my feet up on her desk,” he said, per the New York Times. "When the police came in with pepper spray, I said, ‘I paid for this, it’s mine,’ and I left.”
