In the three years since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal investigators have arrested more than 1,200 people accused in the assault. At least 33 of those people are from North Carolina.
The Jan. 6 cases in North Carolina include people described by prosecutors as high-ranking members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, along with people who say they just went along with the crowd into the building.
At least a dozen of those arrested in North Carolina have been charged with assaulting police officers during the melee. They are all accused of being part of a pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol to disrupt Congress certifying the election for Joe Biden on Jan. 6, 2021.
Here are the details on those arrested from North Carolina and updates on where their cases stand:
Nathan Baer
Asheville
Arrested: June 26, 2023
Charges remain pending
Baer “is charged with the felony offense of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder; and misdemeanor offenses of entering or remaining on restricted grounds without lawful authority to do so; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building,” according to the DOJ.
Stephen Maury Baker
Garner
Arrested: Feb. 1, 2021
Baker pleaded guilty Feb. 7, 2022. He was charged with unlawful entry in a restricted building or grounds; violent entry and disorderly conduct in a capitol building; parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a capitol building.
A federal judge sentenced Baker in May 2022 to two years of probation and 9 days (3 consecutive weekends) of intermittent confinement and $500 restitution.
Matthew Jason Beddingfield
Smithfield
Arrested: Feb. 8, 2022
The FBI said the then-21-year-old man assaulted police officers with a metal flagpole on his way into the Capitol and again attacked police once he was inside.
He was sentenced to 38 months in prison and two years of supervised release.
Bradley Stuart Bennett
Charlotte
Arrested: April 12, 2021
He faces charges for obstructing an official proceeding, parading on Capitol grounds without a permit and other low-level offenses.
Aiden Bilyard
Raleigh
Arrested: Nov. 22, 2021
Pleaded guilty Oct. 20, 2022
He was sentenced to 40 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
Bilyard faced some of the most serious charges for Jan. 6 defendants, including using a “deadly or dangerous weapon." The FBI says Bilyard sprayed a line of police officers with a can of “bear spray,” similar to mace.
According to the FBI, Bilyard used a baseball bat to break a window into the Capitol. Then he and a number of others crawled through the window and into the building, the FBI said.
Tonya Bishop
Snow Hill
Arrested: Dec. 8, 2023
“Curtis Davis, 45, and Tonya Bishop, 48, of Snow Hill, North Carolina, are each charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers,” the DOJ said.
David Worth Bowman
Raleigh
Arrested: March 6, 2023
Bowman, along with Christopher Carnell, of Cary, is “charged with obstructing, influencing, or impeding any official proceeding, or attempting to do so, a felony. They are also each charged with four misdemeanors,” the DOJ said.
“Bowman and Carnell are seen on surveillance video, from January 6, 2021, unlawfully entering the Senate floor at 2:49 p.m. The two appeared to be traveling together and could be seen rifling through papers on Senators’ desks,” the DOJ said in a news release.
Lewis Easton Cantwell
Asheville
Arrested: Feb. 18, 2021
Pleaded guilty March 24, 2022
A federal judge in December 2022 sentenced Cantwell to five months in prison. Cantwell pleaded guilty to a single count of obstructing, impeding, or interfering with law enforcement officers.
“Cantwell can be seen participating in the mob rocking back and forth while others chanted ‘heave ho’ as they pushed against police,” the DOJ said.
Christopher Carnell
Cary
Arrested: March 2, 2023
Carnell is “charged with obstructing, influencing, or impeding any official proceeding, or attempting to do so, a felony. They are also each charged with four misdemeanors,” the DOJ said. Prosecutors charged Carnell along with David Bowman of Raleigh.
“Bowman and Carnell are seen on surveillance video, from January 6, 2021, unlawfully entering the Senate floor at 2:49 p.m. The two appeared to be traveling together and could be seen rifling through papers on Senators’ desks,” the DOJ said in a news release.
David Paul Daniel
Mint Hill
Arrested: Nov. 30, 2033
Prosecutors charged Daniel with two felonies: assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and civil disorder. He also faces misdemeanor charges. The DOJ said Daniel assaulted police officers during the attack.
Curtis Davis
Snow Hill
Arrested: Dec. 8, 2023
Davis was arrested with Tonya Bishop in December. Prosecutors say Davis is seen on video throwing punches at police officers.
In body-worn camera video from a police officer, “Davis can be seen shoving and punching an MPD officer and seizing the officer's police baton,” the DOJ said.
Charles Donohoe
Kernersville
Arrested: March 17, 2021
Pleaded guilty April 8, 2022
Prosecutors identified Donohoe as a high-ranking member of the Proud Boys, a rightwing group. Prosecutors say the group organized an assault on the Capitol with about 100 members.
According to the DOJ, Donohoe “pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting or impeding officers. As part of the plea agreement, Donohoe has agreed to cooperate with the government’s ongoing investigation.”
He testified against other members of the group and was sentenced in December to 40 months in prison.
Edward George, Jr.
Fayetteville
Arrested: July 15, 2021
George and another co-defendant are accused of assaulting, resisting or impeding police and stealing an American flag and flagpole from inside the Capitol building during the Jan. 6 attack, according to court records.
He is charged with nine counts, including civil disorder; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; and theft of government property, aiding and abetting.
David Joseph Gietzen
Sanford
Arrested: May 11, 2022
A jury found Gietzen guilty of five felonies and three misdemeanors for his participation in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
Prosecutors said he “pushed an officer during a series of hand-to-hand confrontations between rioters, MPD, and Capitol Police Officers. Moments later, Gietzen appeared to grab an officer by the throat or face mask.”
“Gietzen – still wearing his distinctive helmet – was seen holding a long pole and thrusting it at a line of officers, ultimately striking a USCP officer with the pole in what Gietzen said was an effort to move the officer,” the DOJ said.
Court records appear to show that Gietzen has not yet been sentenced.
James Tate Grant
Cary
Arrested: Oct. 14, 2021
Grant faces charges of assaulting police during the attack on the Capitol. The FBI says video shows Grant and others picking up a metal barricade and shoving an officer.
He made his way inside the Capitol, the FBI said. A search warrant for Grant’s phone found photos of him inside a Senate office, according to court filings.
Grant is charged with nine counts, including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon or inflicting bodily injury.
Joshua Hall
Sanford
Arrested: May 26, 2023
Hall faces four counts for entering restricted grounds, disorderly conduct and demonstrating in the Capitol building.
Johnny Harris
Shelby
Arrested: March 18, 2021
Harris, carrying a flag and wearing an American flag shirt, was seen on video walking through the Capitol, according to the FBI. Agents say he shared photos of himself on Facebook from inside the building. He admitted to being in the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, according to the Justice Department.
He was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; knowingly, with intent to impede government business or official functions, engaging in disorderly conduct on capitol grounds; engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct on the capitol buildings or grounds; parading, demonstrating or picketing in the capitol buildings.
He was sentenced to seven months in prison and a year of supervised release.
Stephen Ethan Horn
Raleigh
Arrested: April 9, 2021
A photograph shared by The New York Times magazine shows Horn in the Capitol, dressed in a black jacket and wearing a black helmet as he stands on top of a monument, according to the FBI. That photograph led people who knew Horn to identify him to the FBI.
In a Facebook post, Horn wrote, “I did not enter the capitol building as part of the protest, or for cheap thrills, but to accurately document and record a significant event which was taking place,” according to court filings. He repeated his story that he was at the Capitol as a journalist in two separate interviews with Spectrum News 1.
Horn admitted to FBI agents that he was in the Capitol and was the man in the photo on top of the monument, according to an affidavit. He faces four charges for entering the Capitol that day.
James Little
Claremonth
Arrested: March 24, 2021
Little pleaded guilty to one count on Nov. 16, 2021, and was sentenced to 60 days of incarceration and three years of supervised release.
James Phillip Mault
Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty)
Arrested: October 2021
Federal agents arrested Mault at Fort Bragg, accusing him of assaulting police during the attack on the Capitol. Mault pepper sprayed officers who were trying to keep the mob from getting in the building, according to the FBI.
Mault enlisted in the Army after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to the Justice Department.
He pleaded guilty in April to assaulting police. A judge sentenced him in July to more than 3-and-a-half years in prison, three years’ supervised release and ordered him to pay $2,000 in restitution.
Benjamin Robinson
Matthews
Arrested: May 20, 2022
Robinson and three members of his family are charged with four counts after, the FBI said, they all entered the Capitol during the attack. The other members of the family charged in the attack are from Indian Land, South Carolina, a Charlotte suburb just over the stateline.
“The Robinsons were among the people closest to the internal doorway to the House. Officers attempting to protect the Speaker’s Lobby Door were forced to retreat by the escalating violence from the crowd,” an FBI affidavit states.
They were nearby when police shot and killed Ashli Babbitt as she tried to go through a broken window to the Speaker’s Lobby, the FBI said.
After the shooting, Robinson and his family members left the Capitol, court records state.
He was sentenced to 120 days of incarceration.
Brett Alan Rotella, aka Brett Ostrander
Kannapolis
Arrested: Aug. 29, 2023
Prosecutors charged Rotella “with felony offenses of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers,” the DOJ said. He also faces several misdemeanor charges.
Court records accuse Rotella of being part of a mob that attacked police officers in a tunnel leading into the Capitol.
Anthony Joseph Scirica
Winston-Salem
Arrested: June 16, 2022
A Snapchat account linked to Scirica shared images from inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to the FBI.
He was also seen in a report on "Inside Edition" walking through the Capitol during the attack, court records say.
Scirica was arrested in 2022 and pleaded guilty to one count. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail.
Dale Jeremiah Shalvey
Conover
Arrested: March 9, 2021
Shalvey was arrested with his wife, Tara Aileen Stottlemyer. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and obstructing an official proceeding.
He was sentenced to 41 months in prison and two years of supervised release.
“At approximately 2:20 p.m., Shalvey, Stottlemyer, and Morrison entered the Capitol through the Senate Wing door and then moved to various areas within the building, including the Crypt, the House’s Suite, the Rotunda, and the Senate Chamber,” the DOJ said in a news release.
“Inside the Senate Chamber, Shalvey and Morrison looked through Senators’ desks, while all three defendants took pictures of documents that were in and on those desks. Shalvey also took a letter written by Senator Mitt Romney to Vice President Mike Pence from a Senator’s desk and destroyed it after leaving the Capitol,” the DOJ said.
Grayson Sherrill
Cherryville
Arrested: March 1, 2021
Sherrill pleaded guilty Feb. 3, 2023 to assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers. He was sentenced to seven months in jail and one year of supervised release.
An FBI wanted poster showed Sherrill inside the Capitol wearing a red “Make America Great Again” sweatshirt and carrying some sort of stick or pole, according to federal court records.
Two family members recognized Sherrill and called the FBI, according to an affidavit.
Sherrill was originally arrested in March 2021. New charges filed in December 2022 accuse him of assaulting a police officer with a metal pole. He has been released on personal recognizance.
Christopher Raphael Spencer
Winston-Salem
Arrested: Jan. 19, 2021
Spencer and his wife, Virginia “Jenny” Spencer, are charged together with five counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; and disorderly conduct in a capitol building. Virginia Spencer has since pleaded guilty.
According to the FBI, Christopher Spencer streamed video live from inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack. The video shows him chanting “stop the steal” with the crowd in the Crypt, in the center of the Capitol building.
Court records show his charges are still pending.
Virginia Marie Spencer
Durham
Arrested: Feb. 8, 2021
Virginia “Jenny” Spencer was arrested after her husband, Christopher Spencer. She admitted to investigators that she and her husband were inside the Capitol during the attack, according to an FBI affidavit.
The two are seen on cameras in the Capitol walking through the Statuary Hall. Christopher Spencer streamed video of their time in the Capitol on Facebook Live.
In September 2021, she pleaded guilty to one court of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. A judge sentenced her to 90 days in jail and three years of probation.
Lee Stutts
Terrell
Arrested: Nov. 16, 2023
Stutts, a former Marine, faces “felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder,” according to the DOJ.
“At approximately 1:00 p.m., Stutts approached a line of U.S. Capitol Police officers who had formed a protective barrier on the Plaza in an effort to prevent the rioters from entering the Capitol building,” the DOJ said in a news release.
“Stutts is accused of physically assaulting at least seven different U.S. Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Department officers. He is also accused of throwing an item towards a line of officers, pushing a metal bike rack fencing into officers, and joining with other rioters in using an enormous sign as a battering ram against police,” the DOJ said.
Alan Michael St. Onge
Brevard
Arrested: June 16, 2023
He’s charged with four counts, including civil disorder and disorderly conduct.
Laura Steele
Kernersville
Arrested: Feb, 17, 2021
A federal jury convicted Steele and four others in March 2023 of felony conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. According to the DOJ, “sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison, six months of home confinement, and 36 months of supervised release.”
Steele, a former police officer, was accused of being part of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia that wore military-style uniforms to the protest and attack on the Capitol. She is charged with 16 others accused of being part of the militia.
Last month a jury found two Oath Keepers guilty of seditious conspiracy and three others guilty of related felonies during the Jan. 6 attack. Steele was not part of that trial.
According to the FBI, Steele applied to join the group in the days before Jan. 6.
Tara Aileen Stottlemyer
Conover
Arrested: Sept. 14, 2021
Stottlemyer pleaded guilty in October 2022. She was “sentenced to eight months in prison, 24 months of supervised release, and a fine/restitution of $2,000 for obstruction of an official proceeding,” the DOJ said.
She was arrested days after her husband, Dale Shalvey, was arrested on similar charges.
William Todd Wilson
Newton Grove
Arrested: May 2, 2022
Prosecutors said Wilson was a regional leader of the Oath Keepers militia. He pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, both felonies, on the same day he was charged, May 2, 2022.
“He was the first of the Oath Keepers co-conspirators to breach the building. Wilson was armed with a pocketknife and wore a neck gaiter and beanie hat to mask his appearance,” according to the DOJ.
“By 2:38 p.m., he had marched through the Rotunda to the east side of the Capitol, where he joined in the center of a mob of people trying to push open the Rotunda Doors from inside the building. About one minute later the Rotunda Doors were forced open, and a mob of people, including more Oath Keepers, moved inside,” the DOJ said.
Court records do not show if Wilson has been sentenced yet.
Matthew Mark Wood
Winston-Salem
Arrested: March 5, 2021
Wood admitted to the FBI that he entered the Capitol and went into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, according to court records.
He shared photos of himself on Facebook inside the Capitol and defended his actions, saying, “Our election was stolen. The system is against us. I stood up to our tyrannical government.”
One photo shows Wood standing in the Capitol Rotunda carrying a large Trump flag.
He pleaded guilty in May 2022 to several counts. On Nov. 28, 2022, a federal judge sentenced Wood to “to three years of probation, including 12 months of home detention, 100 hours of community service,” and ordered him to pay $2,000 in restitution.