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More than 800 people around the country have been arrested in connection with the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Some are charged with felonies, while investigators continue searching for others involved in violence during the hours-long event.
Nine men from Wisconsin were arrested. So far, four have pleaded guilty to various charges. The others have upcoming hearings.
Here is the latest on their cases.
Initial charges: Entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly or disruptive conduct in such a building, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Case status: Kovacik was charged in May, arrested June 19 in Indiana, and made his initial court appearance via Zoom on June 28. He is free on a personal recognizance bond and is set for a status hearing Oct. 28.
His part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to court records:
The complaint says Kovacik told investigators he took a train to Washington, D.C. to take part in former president Donald Trump's rally, then entered the Capitol with the mob and spent about 90 minutes inside. He took video of about 30 minutes of himself walking around various areas, sometimes with others, including on an elevator, and sometimes alone on some upper floors by.
Capitol security video and police body cam video shows Kovacik in the areas that match up with his own video. Investigators also compared the security images to past booking photos for arrests in Wisconsin and Indiana to confirm his identity.
Conlin Weyer, 21, Plover
Initial charges: Weyer was arrested at home May 13, 2022. He is charged with parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds, and in restricted building or grounds, and with entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.
Case status: Weyer made an inititial appearance via Zoom on May 17, and is free on personal recognizance bond. A status hearing is set for Dec. 1.
His part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to court records:
Weyer is accused of joining throngs of people who entered the Capitol, seeking to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results. A former Stevens Point Area Senior High School classmate helped the FBI identify Weyer with the school's yearbook.
Riley D. Kasper, 23, Saxon
Initial charges: assaulting, resisting or impeding officers while armed with a dangerous weapon; civil disorder engaging in violence in a restricted building or ground with a dangerous weapon, committing acts of physical violence on Capitol grounds. Five of the six counts are felonies, punishable by up to five, 10 or 20 years in prison.
Case status: Kasper appeared in court March 17 in Madison and was released on condition he not possess any dangerous weapons. He entered not guilty pleas to all the charges during a virtual hearing before District of Columbia judge on May 25..
His part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to court records:
On Jan. 21 of last year, an informant directed the FBI to a YouTube video showing a man who the FBI says turned out to be Kasper, spraying what looks like bear repellent at officers during the attack on the Capitol.
Agents got a search warrant for Kasper's Facebook account in November. Kasper had posted photos of his drive to Washington, D.C., from former President Donald Trump's rally just before the crowd invaded the Capitol, and video taken from the vanguard of the crowd as it breached barriers.
One Facebook friend responded that Kasper was right there when the fences went down, to which he responded, "... yeah bro! I didn't drive 14 hours for nothing."
He also posted, "I pepper sprayed 3 cops so bad they got undressed and went home," according to agents, and went on to write several more posts about surviving tear gas, flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets. He called it "pretty exciting" and "the most real version of paintball ever."
"That's how we took the capital," he wrote.
Kasper goes on to try to recruit the friend to come with him "next time," and discusses making paintballs filled with pepper spray.
Kasper told the friend, "there is definitely something satisfying about pepper-spraying cops in riot gear and watching them run from you like a bitch even though they have face masks, billy clubs and full ... body armor”
David Mish, 41, West Allis
Initial charges: Unlawful entry on restricted grounds and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Case status: Mish has pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in November 2021 to 30 days in jail, ordered to pay $500 restitution.
His part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to court records:
On Jan. 7, Mish contacted the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and said he had information about the death of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by an officer as she tried to climb through a broken window into the Speaker's Lobby, which would have given rioters access to the House of Representatives chamber.
Mish told a detective he entered the Capitol with "a group of guys."
"Because I entered the Capitol Building are you guys gonna take me to jail? I didn’t break anything ... I went in, yes," he said.
"Everybody was yelling ‘breach the building,'" Mish said.
He also told the detective he went into a bathroom near the Speaker's Lobby and objected when others shattered a mirror.
“We’re trying to get to the politicians because we wanna voice our ... we wanna voice to 'em," he said he told the others.
Investigators also found Mish in videos posted to social media that showed he was in the tightly packed hallway near the Speaker's Lobby moments after Babbitt was shot.
In one video, Mish is seen in the chaos as police are trying to move people out of the hallway after the shooting.
The person filming says to Mish, "Dog, someone just died," and Mish responds, "Yeah, I can't believe I seen it."
In another video, closer to the doors to the outside, Mish and the man filming are being jostled by the crush of people. Some appear to be trying to leave the building and some are fighting and pushing police officers.
"We can't get out," Mish tells those who appear to be pushing him forward.
Michael Fitzgerald, 42, Janesville
Initial charges: Obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder, knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Case status: Fitzgerald did not appear for a Jan. 12 status hearing, due to health/medical reasons. Court records indicate he has agreed to plead guilty to felony count. Due to ongoing treatment for a serious condition, his next hearing is set for Dec. 19.
His part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to court records:
Fitzgerald was in the front of a crowd that pushed into the south entrance to the Senate around 2:47 p.m. For about a minute and half, rioters were seen on video "punching law enforcement officers, throwing objects at law enforcement officers, and attempting to hit law enforcement officers with a flagpole."
During the breach and after the rioters entered, Fitzgerald was holding a cellphone above his head as though he were recording or livestreaming the violence.
His photo was later among several on an FBI poster seeking to identify the riot participants. On Jan. 8, a tipster who recognized Fitzgerald from the poster provided the FBI with Fitzgerald's name, address and phone number, and said they knew him from work.
Agents met with Fitzgerald at his home the next day and confirmed he was the man in the photos inside the Capitol.
His attorney, Mark Eisenberg of Madison, said he doesn't expect the government to seek detention.
"He's obviously known about this for some time," Eisenberg said. "He's cooperated with them. He's not a major player."
Eisenberg noted that while some protesters used weapons against the Capitol police trying to secure the Senate, Fitzgerald is only seen with a camera.
"He's taking a picture of what's going on," he said. "I didn't know that was a crime."
Kevin Daniel Loftus, 52, Eau Claire
Initial charges: Illegally entering either house of Congress, or adjacent areas, and disorderly conduct on the grounds of the Capitol.
Case status: Pleaded guilty Oct.19 to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. On March 14 he was sentenced to three years probation, 60 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $500 restitution.
His part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to court records:
Pictures posted on Facebook and other social media sources show a man identified as Loftus holding an American flag and smiling inside the Capitol in the halls of Congress. The complaint shows social media comments by Loftus saying “One of 700 inside” and “That’s right folks some of us are in it to win it.”
Loftus also commented on a story about police releasing photos of suspects in the Capitol riots.
“I am wanted by the FBI for illegal entry,” he said.
According to a criminal complaint, the FBI interviewed Loftus in Eau Claire and he admitted to walking into the Capitol on Jan. 6 where he took several photos.
Joshua Munn, 23, Melrose
Initial charges: Entering a restricted building, disruptive conduct in a restricted building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Case status: Pleaded guilty April 28 to illegally protesting inside the Capitol. He was sentenced Oct. 12 to three years of probation and ordered to pay $500 restitution for damage done to the building.
His part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to court records:
According to court records, he and at least four other family members left Texas to attend the rally in January. The five — Munn, two siblings and their parents — are now charged with entering a restricted building, disruptive conduct in a restricted building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
The Munns left for Washington, D.C., from Borger, Texas. Kristi Munn, 28, appears to have posted numerous updates on their travels and experience at the events of Jan. 6. Three days later, a tipster pointed the FBI to her Snapchat account.
Soon after, Kristi Munn's Facebook page was no longer available, but investigators found pages for other family members. Some by Thomas Munn, 53, seemed to urge attendance at the Jan. 6 rally in the days leading up to it. One noted the family had made it to D.C. — "1,600 miles in 24 hrs!"
Using the Munns' photos on social media, investigators found them entering the Capitol through a window and milling about in other areas, on surveillance video. A sixth family member, identified in records as a minor, is seen inside the Capitol as well but is not charged.
The family also showed up on video and photos that other intruders in the Crypt, between the House and the Senate, posted on social media, that investigators also found with the help of a tipster.
An employee at the high school in Borger, Texas, where many of the Munn children attended helped verify the photos as the Munn family, investigators wrote.
According to the court records, Josh Munn posted on his own Facebook page, "Before you hear it on the news I am I [sic] family marched on DC today it was extremely cool we did enter the Capitol building with the … Second group there was no violence from the protesters at all it all came from the police believe it or not … It was super cool everything was cool till the cop used tear gas that is when people got mad but still never hurt anyone.”
Someone replied to him, "Oh so u broke in?"
Munn replies that the window was already opened when they got there.
The whole family was sentenced together on Oct. 12. The parents were each sentenced to 14 days in jail, as a condition of the three-year probation terms and $500 restitution orders.
Abram Markofski, 24, La Crosse
Initial charges: Entering a restricted building, disruptive conduct in a restricted building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Case status: Markofski pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced Dec. 10, 2021 to serve two years probation and pay $500 restitution.
His part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to court records:
Marofski and Brandon Nelson drove from the Madison area to Washington in January and entered the U.S. Capitol during the storming of the building.
Both admitted entering the building after attending then-President Donald Trump’s rally south of the White House earlier in the day, according to a criminal complaint.
Federal agents turned their attention to the two after receiving an anonymous tip that Nelson had entered the building on Jan. 6, according to the complaint.
After attending Trump’s rally and arriving at the Capitol, the two men said police made no attempt to remove them from the building. Nelson said police were guiding people inside. Markofski told agents an officer said to him, “I can’t make you guys leave. However, for your safety, you should leave.”
Surveillance cameras captured images of both men. They said they spent about 40 minutes inside the building and drove back to Wisconsin after leaving, according to the complaint.
A spokesman for the Wisconsin Army National Guard said Markofski enlisted in 2019 and holds the rank of private first class.
“As a matter of policy though, we cannot discuss personnel matters,” spokesman Capt. Joe Trovato said by email in response to questions about how the charges might affect his status with the Guard.
Brandon Nelson, 29, La Crosse
Initial charges: Entering a restricted building, disruptive conduct in a restricted building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Case status: Pleaded guilty Sept 15 to the charges of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced with Markofski in December to the same sentence — two years of probation and restitution of $500.
His part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to court records:
Brandon Nelson drove with Abram Markofski from the Madison area to Washington in January and entered the U.S. Capitol during the storming of the building.
Both admitted entering the building after attending then-President Donald Trump’s rally south of the White House earlier in the day, according to a criminal complaint.
Federal agents turned their attention to the two after receiving an anonymous tip that Nelson had entered the building on Jan. 6, according to the complaint.
After attending Trump’s rally and arriving at the Capitol, the two men said police made no attempt to remove them from the building. Nelson said police were guiding people inside. Markofski told agents an officer said to him, “I can’t make you guys leave. However, for your safety, you should leave.”
Surveillance cameras captured images of both men. They said they spent about 40 minutes inside the building and drove back to Wisconsin after leaving, according to the complaint.
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