{"id":748781,"date":"2021-09-13T17:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=748781"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:36:08","slug":"fifteen-more-arrested-for-january-6-capitol-riot-as-internet-sleuths-tell-on-acquaintances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fifteen-more-arrested-for-january-6-capitol-riot-as-internet-sleuths-tell-on-acquaintances\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen More Arrested For January 6 Capitol Riot As Internet Sleuths Tell On Acquaintances"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ffifteen-more-arrested-for-january-6-capitol-riot-as-internet-sleuths-tell-on-acquaintances%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=748781&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230464979-jan6.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Federal authorities arrested at least fifteen more people on charges related to the January 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fbi-still-hunting-for-hundreds-six-months-after-capitol-riot\">Capitol disturbance<\/a> in August, with charges as minor as trespassing continuing to accrue eight months after the event thanks to tips from internet sleuths, social media \u201cfriends,\u201d and even family members, a Daily Wire analysis of court records showed.<\/p>\n<p>The participants do not always fit in the popular mold of Trump cap-wearing, old white hillbillies.<\/p>\n<p>Uliyahu Ben\u2019Arie Hayah was \u201ca black male with facial hair, wearing a dark-colored head covering, gray-colored long-sleeve outer garment, camouflage-pattern backpack on his chest, and an OD Green duffle bag,\u201d according to court papers, which say he pushed an officer \u201cback approximately ten feet into the crowd where the confrontation was occurring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw enforcement records also indicated that Hayah is a parolee supervised by a parole officer from the Virginia Department of Corrections in Fairfax County, Virginia following a criminal conviction in the Circuit Court of Maryland for Prince George\u2019s County,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI identified him, and other January 6 defendants, through tips from an online group called \u201cSedition Hunters\u201d that reviewed images and videos from the day and combined them with Facebook profiles and other public sources.<\/p>\n<p>In a video taken from the scene, Hayah complained of police brutality. \u201cSome of those officers in there are decent officers. They did not want a physical confrontation but there are some officers in there that are evil [\u2026] they shot a woman from another side of the glass\u2026 They maced but I had a gas mask on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philip Young of New Jersey was identified because his jacket showed the name of his labor union, the Boilermakers Union Local 28. He was charged on July 28.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities conducted an exhaustive search for participants in the disturbance, including obtaining records from Google, Snapchat, Apple, Facebook, banks, and phone companies.<\/p>\n<p>But many of the belated arrests were the result of alleged participants being identified and turned in to the FBI by internet sleuths.<\/p>\n<p>Blas Santillan of Georgia, who was arrested on August 23, was turned in by a former high school classmate who saw a Snapchat video on the phone of a mutual acquaintance.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Irwin is a retired police officer from Kentucky. After an anonymous internet tipster told the FBI his name, a lieutenant on the police force confirmed to the Bureau that Irwin told him he \u201cwas on his way to meet up with friends at a march.\u201d He was arrested on August 17.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Scott Burlew of Oklahoma was arrested on August 19 for allegedly \u201cphysically grabbing and shoving [an Associated Press photographer] and pushing him forcefully over a low wall.\u201d A tip was submitted to the FBI \u201cby a group of internet sleuths (collectively, CW-1) performing open-source research utilizing social media and content posted on various online channels, including YouTube, in an attempt to identify BOLO offenders posted on the FBI\u2019s Capitol Violence Webpage\u2026 CW-1 has previously provided assistance to the FBI in connection with the Capitol riots investigation,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Wilson of Missouri was arrested after a Facebook friend of her husband corresponded with the FBI, and the FBI matched her and her husband Zach up with surveillance video in which they \u201ccan be seen walking about the Rotunda amongst several other unknown individuals. Z. WILSON and KELSEY WILSON did not appear to be mingling or congregating with any other individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour affiant submits there is also probable cause to believe that KELSEY LEIGH ANN WILSON violated 40 U.S.C. 5104(e)(2)(D) &amp; (G), which makes it a crime to willfully and knowingly (D) utter loud, threatening, or abusive language, or engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct, at any place in the Grounds or in any of the Capitol Buildings with the intent to impede, disrupt, or disturb the orderly conduct of a session of Congress,\u201d an agent wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In other January 6 cases, even immediate family members have served as confidential informants to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>In June, someone who had known Michael Leon Brock of Mississippi for twenty years submitted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/case-multi-defendant\/file\/1413551\/download\">tip<\/a> to the FBI that the person recognized him in a picture.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Guy Wesley Reffit of Texas, \u201cone of Reffitt\u2019s family members, who will be referred to as CW-1\u2026 surreptitiously recorded the defendant\u2019s voice as the defendant narrated some of the videos shown on the [computer] for the family,\u201d prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/50260045\/27\/united-states-v-reffitt\/\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Want more exclusive Daily Wire investigations? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe#plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member<\/a><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe#plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities arrested at least fifteen more people on charges related to the January 6 Capitol disturbance in August, with charges as minor as trespassing continuing to accrue eight months &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}