Federal agents arrested a corporal from the US Marine Corp Reserve Friday on accusations of participating in the siege of the Capitol building on January 6, reports The Daily Beast.
Jia Liu faces four misdemeanor counts after authorities say they twice caught him on security cameras climbing into the Capitol through an open window.
According to Law and Crime, prosecutors charge him with being in a restricted area, disorderly conduct in a restricted building, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
He is not charged with any violence or acts of vandalism.
“Based on Liu’s passport, driver’s license, and Department of Defense photographs, your affiant located Liu on law enforcement body camera footage outside the U.S. Capitol building, as well as on U.S. Capitol building security camera footage entering the U.S. Capitol,” an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit. “Liu appears in the stills below dressed in a black jacket with a red, white and blue American flag hood donned over his head.”
Raw Magazine reports nearly 1 in 5 defendants have a service record.
Liu joined the Marines in 2014 and is a cyber network operator assigned to Brooklyn. His dad’s Jeep Wrangler was spotted leaving New York the morning of the Capitol Riot headed toward DC. Authorities spotted the same vehicle returning after midnight.
They also say his credit card was used during that time in Washington, DC.
The U.S. Marine Corp had no comment.
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