WASHINGTON – A member of a neo-Nazi group has pleaded guilty The Capitol Rebellion He admitted to throwing a water bottle at police and stealing a police helmet as a “war trophy” during a brutal fight in the lower west tunnel on Thursday. January 6 attack
Richard Zachary Ackerman admitted his guilt on two charges: obstructing law enforcement officers during a civil disturbance and theft of government property. He was there first faced three additional charges: assaulting, resisting, resisting, obstructing a person in the performance of official duties; enter and remain in a prohibited building or area; and disorderly and disruptive behavior on a prohibited premises or premises. Those charges will be dismissed under a plea agreement.
In court Thursday, Ackerman admitted to bragging about stealing a SWAT team officer’s helmet and labeling it a “war trophy.” The FBI said it received a tip on January 8, 2021, two days after the attack, with a photo of a US Capitol police helmet with a “New England 131” sticker on it.
FBI task force member he said “New England 131” It referred to “Nationalist Socialist Club 131” and “White Defense Forces” and described NSC-131 as “a neo-Nazi group with small, autonomous regional chapters in the United States and abroad, whose members see themselves as soldiers in a war with them.” an enemy, Jewish controlled system that is deliberately plotting the extinction of the white race”.
A confidential FBI human source attended a 2021 meeting with members of NSC-131, where a member known online as “Zach Parker” spoke of being at the Capitol on January 6 and said the helmet was still at his residence. FBI task force member.
Ackerman flew to Germany in July 2021 and was subjected to secondary screening by US Customs and Border Protection, according to the FBI. Agents searching his phone said they found conversations in which Ackerman bragged about being at the Capitol. One person he spoke to told him to go home and not get arrested, and said Ackerman “wouldn’t be able to be a Marine” if he was arrested. (January 6 riots James Mault and Aiden Billiards joined the army after taking part in the attack, while many other rioters were active members of the military while participating in the riot.)
In 2022, agents obtained a search warrant for Ackerman’s residence, spoke with a man who identified himself as Ackerman’s father, and found a Capitol Police helmet in a basement bedroom fireplace, the FBI said.
Ackerman was first arrested in June in New Hampshire and has since been released pending trial. He will be released at least pending sentencing before U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, which is set for July 25.
whom This was reported by NBC News, on January 6, only 15 of the more than 1,380 defendants are being held in pretrial detention by a federal judge. All the other rioters behind bars on January 6th are there because they either pleaded guilty in court to engaging in criminal activity on January 6th or were unanimously found guilty by judges or juries.
Prosecutors have so far convicted about 984 defendants, and hundreds of additional rioters have been identified by online “rebellion hunters” but have yet to be arrested. Of the approximately 859 defendants sentenced, 520 received at least one term of imprisonment. according to The Ministry of Justice, a few days behind bars with punishments 22 years in prison.