{"id":2037847,"date":"2023-09-19T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ray-epps-charged-with-misdemeanor-over-j6-capitol-protest\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T18:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:33:34","slug":"ray-epps-charged-with-misdemeanor-over-j6-capitol-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ray-epps-charged-with-misdemeanor-over-j6-capitol-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Epps faces misdemeanor charges for his involvement in the J6 Capitol protest."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fray-epps-charged-with-misdemeanor-over-j6-capitol-protest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2037847&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pro-Trump supporters storm \u2062the\u2063 U.S. Capitol following a rally \u2062with\u2062 President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021\u200c in\u200b Washington, DC. Trump supporters \u200dgathered in the\u2062 nation\u2019s \u2063capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s Electoral \u200cCollege victory \u2062over President Trump in the 2020\u200d election. (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth Volberding<br \/><\/a>3:30 PM \u2013 Tuesday, September\u200d 19, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>James Ray Epps, \u200ba former U.S. Marine who\u200d became the\u2062 focus \u200dof January\u2062 6<sup>th<\/sup> conspiracy theories,\u200c has\u2062 been charged with a misdemeanor offense \u200cregarding\u200b the January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021, protest at the United States Capitol.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, federal prosecutors \u200cfiled a criminal\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.259850\/gov.uscourts.dcd.259850.1.0.pdf\">charge<\/a> against \u200cEpps in a U.S. District Court in \u200bWashington D.C. He was charged with one misdemeanor count of disruptive or disorderly conduct \u200cin a restricted area.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The charges against \u200bEpps claim that he \u2063\u201cknowingly, and with intent to impede and \u200bdisrupt the orderly conduct of \u2063Government business and \u2064official functions, engage[d] in disorderly \u200dand disruptive conduct in and within such proximity to, a restricted building \u2062and grounds\u2014that is, \u200bany posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise\u200c restricted area within the\u200b United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President was and\u2063 would be\u200b temporarily visiting\u2014when and so \u200cthat such conduct did in\u200d fact\u200b impede and disrupt the orderly conduct \u2063of Government business and official functions, and attempted \u200dand conspired to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The former Marine is expected to plead\u2063 guilty to the charge\u200c as part\u2064 of a plea deal with prosecutors, according to an \u200dentry in the court\u2019s\u2062 docket.\u200b <\/p>\n<p>His plea agreement hearing \u200cis reportedly scheduled for Wednesday, September \u206420<sup>th<\/sup>, before Chief\u2063 Judge James Boasberg.<\/p>\n<p>Epps, an Arizona native, was\u200d involved in the protests at the U.S.\u2062 Capitol on January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021. He eventually became the center of conspiracy theories in connection\u200d to \u2063former President Donald Trump and his allies, which accused him of\u200d being \u2064an FBI informant.<\/p>\n<p>The former Marine claimed that he never\u200c entered the United States \u200cCapitol building and \u200dthat there is no evidence\u2064 to show \u200bthat he \u2062did. Therefore, Epps has been placed in a group\u2063 of \u2063over 1,100 defendants who \u200bare currently\u200c facing criminal charges simply for being on\u200d Capitol grounds that day.<\/p>\n<p>Epps was\u200b spotted in a\u200c video from January 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021,\u2062 encouraging the crowds and calling on protestors to <strong>\u201cgo into the Capitol,\u201d<\/strong> even though he immediately added that it should \u200dbe done \u2064 <strong>\u201cpeacefully.\u201d<\/strong> The next day, \u200bhe appeared\u2063 at the U.S. \u2062Capitol again and was allegedly \u200bat the center of a\u2062 group who broke through the barricades.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s your reminder of what Ray Epps did\u200d on January\u2063 6th. <\/p>\n<p>Ray\u2064 Epps ACTIVELY encouraged people to go to the \u2064Capitol. <\/p>\n<p>Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years\u2062 and wasn\u2019t \u2064present at\u200d the Capitol that day. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jyYdAhct47\">pic.twitter.com\/jyYdAhct47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheDeplorableVeteran\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@DeplorableVet84)\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeplorableVet84\/status\/1704160089525870676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September\u2063 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to video footage, the protestors\u200c had pushed a huge Trump sign into the\u200d police line,\u200d but \u200cthe clip \u200bindicates that Epps\u200b tried to defuse the situation. <\/p>\n<p>The former Marine was accused by Fox News of being a federal government agent who was stirring up trouble that would be blamed on Trump supporters, according to the lawsuit.\u00a0Therefore, Epps filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox and former host Tucker Carlson for spreading conspiracy \u200dtheories.<\/p>\n<p>According to an interview with the January 6<sup>th<\/sup> committee last year, Epps claimed that he went to\u2064 Washington, D.C., in January 2021 as a supporter \u2062of Trump. However, he also \u200dsaid that the conspiracy theories that\u200c followed the demonstration tore his life apart.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI never intended to break the law,\u201d Epps\u200b told the committee. \u201cIt\u2019s\u200d not in my DNA. I\u2019ve never \u2014 I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve looked \u2063up my record. \u200cI don\u2019t break \u200cthe law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Edward J. Ungvarsky, a lawyer for Epps, stated\u200d that the case is \u201cfiled \u2063with an anticipation of entry of a guilty plea\u2062 tomorrow to the charge\u201d and declined to \u200bcomment further \u200don\u200c the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Epp\u2019s \u2063charge could result in a maximum punishment of one year in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. 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