A West Virginia Republican state lawmaker who filmed himself storming the US Capitol during the violent riots earlier this week is facing criminal charges, it has been announced.
Per CNN, Derrick Evans, who is a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, has been charged with entering a restricted area and entering the US Capitol in a criminal complaint.
According to CBS News, Evans - who is newly elected - is facing bi-partisan calls to resign. However, his lawyer told a CBS affiliate that he would not be stepping down and had "committed no criminal act that day."
The video, posted by Evans to social media on Wednesday, reportedly depicted him yelling, "We're here. We're here. Derrick Evans is in the Capitol."
In a criminal complaint cited by CBS, an FBI agent noted that he identified Evans by comparing the voice of the person in the live-streamed video to the lawmaker's voice in a campaign video. The agent added, "Evans identifies himself by first and last name in the video recording the offense."
Evans' lawyer later released a statement cited by CNN, in which he states, "it wasn't apparent to Mr. Evans that he wasn't allowed to follow the crowd into this public area of the Capitol, inside which members of the public were already located."
Meanwhile, a man who was photographed sitting in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office with his foot on her desk during the Capitol riots has 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.
Per CNN, acting US Attorney Michael Sherwin said of the scenes in the Capitol:
"The lawless destruction of the U.S. Capitol building was an attack against one of our Nation's greatest institutions.
"My Office, along with our law enforcement partners at all levels, have been expeditiously working and leveraging every resource to identify, arrest, and begin prosecuting these individuals who took part in the brazen criminal acts at the U.S. Capitol."