Prosecutors have said the Proud Boys arranged for members to communicate using specific frequencies on Baofeng radios. Several Proud Boys also entered the Capitol building itself after the mob smashed windows and forced open doors. Just before Congress convened a joint session to certify the presidential election results, a group of Proud Boys followed a crowd of people who breached barriers at a pedestrian entrance to the Capitol grounds, an indictment says. Eleven members or associates of the antigovernment Oath Keepers militia group, including Rhodes, have been charged with seditious conspiracy in the Capitol attack. The new riot-related charges are among the most serious filed so far, but they aren’t the first of their kind. The latest conspiracy charge zeroes in on organized groups that plotted in advance - as federal prosecutors distinguish them from hundreds of other supporters of then-President Donald Trump who were at the scene that day and were charged. Capitol, even if they weren’t in attendance themselves. The indictment is a further proof of how far the Justice Department is going to prosecute the leaders of extremist groups whose members are suspected to have planned and attacked the U.S.
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The arrest came as federal prosecutors won a conviction on all counts in the first trial for a rioter since the attack. His detention hearing was scheduled for Friday. Tarrio made his initial court appearance via video link to a Miami courtroom Tuesday.
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