Two Olathe, Kansas, men and one Blue Springs, Missouri, man were arrested on Thursday morning by the FBI on federal charges related to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C.
William Norman Chrestman, Olathe, Christopher Charles Kuehn, Olathe, and Louis Enrique Colon, Blue Springs, were arrested by federal agents and members of the FBI’s Terrorism Task Force.
On Jan. 6, Congress was certifying the Electoral College results of the presidential election.
Chrestman was charged with conspiracy, civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, threatening to assault a federal law enforcement officer, knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds.
Chrestman was taken into custody without incident, according to an FBI spokesman.
Kuehn was arrested on federal charges of conspiracy, civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds.
Kuehn was taken into custody without incident, the spokesman stated.
Colon was arrested on federal charges of conspiracy, civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds.
Colon also was taken into custody without incident, the spokesman stated.
Affidavits in the cases contain photos of the defendants at the Capitol riots. The affidavits also go into detail about events that happened there.
Although the defendants were from Olathe and Blue Springs, they were allegedly affiliated with a chapter known as the “Kansas City Proud Boys,” a chapter of the Proud Boys, according to the affidavit.
According to the affidavit, about 81 members of the Capitol police and 58 members of the Metropolitan Police Department were assaulted during the riot. One person was shot and killed while trying to enter the House chamber through a broken window.
The federal complaints are online at https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases.
Put them in jail how dare they attack our capital building, that is domestic terrorism. Look at what you put the people through who were in the capital building and the police officers who were just trying to do their job. There is no point you could ever make that would make it OK to do what you did. And going in and trashing and tearing up the United States of America capital building. What do you think you were doing. Well I hope that the government throws the book at these people, because there is no reason for you to act like that none whatsoever. People who get arrested for carrying a small bag of cocaine get more jail time then you probably will. That is not a very good justice system these people should be treated as terrorist and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
These guys are creeps. They came prepared to cause trouble. They aren’t Conservative Trump supports. They’re low life agitators and law breakers not patriots and are definitely not welcome at our Trump rally’s.