Proud Boys members hit with new January 6 conspiracy charges
Source: The Independent
Friday 17 January 2025 05:28 GMT
Two Proud Boys members who allegedly threw smoke grenades at officers and inscribed Murder the Media on a door during the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol have been indicted on new conspiracy charges.
Proud Boys members Nicholas Ochs and Nicholas DeCarlo, also known as Dick Lambaste, are have been hit with the charges while serving a four-year prison sentence after they pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding in 2022. Prosecutors filed the superseding indictment introducing new conspiracy charges on Wednesday. Ochs is a founding member of the Proud Boys Hawaii branch, The Associated Press reports, and a one-time Republican state House candidate.
The Proud Boys are a right-wing extremist group that describe themselves as a pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world, A.K.A. Western Chauvinists. President-elect Donald Trump famously told the Proud Boys to stand back and stand by during a televised presidential debate against Joe Biden just months before the 2020 election. The Proud Boys among those who later stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 ahead of Bidens inauguration.
Several members of the group, including former national chairman Henry Tarrio, were charged and ultimately sentenced to jail time for their involvement.
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