Seven people from North Carolina are facing charges in Washington D.C. after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Five people died during the unrest, including one police officer.

None of the people from North Carolina who have been charged so far are accused of entering the Capitol building, according to court records. More than 60 other people were arrested on a variety of charges between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.

The FBI and other officials are still investigating the mob that attacked the Capitol building as Congress met to certify the election for President-elect Joe Biden. More arrests are likely.

The six are charged in D.C. Superior Court, not in federal court.

As of Friday morning, the people from North Carolina arrested in Washington D.C. are:

  • Jere Brower, 45, from Sanford, North Carolina
  • Earl Glosser, 40, from Matthews, North Carolina
  • Lance Grames, 42, from Sarfield, North Carolina
  • Michael Jones, 23, from North Carolina (court records do not list an address)
  • Tim Scarboro, 33, from Monroe, North Carolina
  • James Smawley, 27, from Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Jay Thaxton, 46, from Concord, North Carolina

 

Police charged Brower Glosser and Grames with violating the 6 p.m. curfew and unlawful entry. The others were charged with a curfew violation.

As Trump supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser instituted a curfew that started at 6 p.m.

Glosser and Grames were arrested with a group of seven others near the Capitol building just after 7:15 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the police report, the group was on the Capitol grounds, though not in the Capitol building, and did not leave after multiple warnings.

Brower was arrested nearby at about the same time. Court records show he was arrested near the Peace Monument in front of the Capitol building.

The other four from North Carolina were arrested for curfew violations not far from the White House. They were all arrested on the 1400 block of New York Avenue Northwest, about a mile and a half from the Capitol building.

“Those who committed crimes in and around our Capitol will be dealt with by authorities in the District of Columbia,” Robert Higdon, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, said in a statement.

“But, if investigations reveal that citizens of the Eastern District of North Carolina traveled to Washington from our district with the intent to commit federal crimes, we will prosecute them here,” he said Thursday.