HELMETTA, N.J. — After two days of trying to find a suspect within the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol who fled as federal brokers approached his dwelling, the FBI on Thursday provided a $10,000 reward for data resulting in the seize of the New Jersey man.
The company mentioned it and different regulation enforcement companies are in search of 47-year-old Gregory Yetman. A federal arrest warrant was issued Monday for him.
He’s charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding sure officers; obstruction of regulation enforcement throughout civil dysfunction; getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds; partaking in bodily violence in a restricted constructing or grounds; and committing an act of bodily violence within the Capitol grounds or buildings, in keeping with the FBI.
The FBI was being joined by regulation enforcement officers from state, county and native police.
Helmetta’s mayor, Christopher Slavicek, informed The New York Occasions the search started at 8 a.m. Wednesday when FBI brokers got here to arrest Yetman, and he ”fled and went off into the woods.”
The mayor mentioned there was ”definitely a way of heightened anxiousness” in and round Helmetta because the search progressed.
There have been ”search helicopters flying at tree peak and numerous regulation enforcement companies going up and down the roads,” he mentioned.
”We might be within the space staging till Yetman is arrested,” the FBI’s Newark workplace mentioned in an announcement Thursday morning. The FBI has arrange a command operation at the local people middle.
USA Immediately reported earlier this yr that Yetman, whom it recognized as a former army police sergeant within the New Jersey Nationwide Guard, had been interviewed by the FBI about his participation within the riot, and that he’s suspected of firing pepper spray at protesters and law enforcement officials.
Yetman informed the newspaper he did nothing unsuitable on the Capitol, and denies pepper-spraying anybody.
Roughly 1,200 individuals have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Over 800 of them have pleaded responsible or been convicted by a jury or choose after a trial. Greater than 700 of them have been sentenced, with roughly two-thirds receiving phrases of imprisonment starting from three days to 22 years.