A fifth New Jersey resident has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol earlier this month as Congress met to certify President Joe Biden s election victory.
Rasha Abual-Ragheb, a Fairfield resident who goes by Rasha Abu, was charged on Jan. 16 after someone who saw a picture of her inside the Capitol tipped off the FBI, officials said.
The FBI said they investigated her Facebook posts where she posted about being proud to be part of history even though she had been hit with pepper spray and tear gas.
Rasha Abual-Ragheb s Facebook post about being at the Capitol riot (FBI)
Adam KlasfeldJan 19th, 2021, 8:07 pm
A federal judge has blocked the release of a white supremacist U.S. Army Reservist whom prosecutors warned would pose a “potentially catastrophic risk of danger to the community” if let out of jail, as was previously ordered on the eve of President-elect
Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli‘s hateful ideology and violent fantasies are detailed at length in court papers, which show that authorities found copies of
Adolf Hitler’s
William Luther Pierce’s
The Turner Diaries in his apartment.
Both antisemitic tracts have been tied to atrocities: Hitler’s led to the genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust, and Pierce’s book depicting the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, bombing of an FBI building, and precipitating of a race war inspired Oklahoma City bomber
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A Central Jersey man who is a U.S. Navy contractor with top-secret security clearance and access to ammunition has been charged with participating in the U.S. Capitol riot, federal authorities said.
Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli, 30, of Monmouth County, described as an “avowed white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer” in court papers, allegedly told other pro-Trump rioters to advance during the deadly Jan. 6 insurgence, authorities said.
He has been charged on five federal counts, including: knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority; disorderly conduct on Capitol Hill grounds; disrupting the orderly conduct of government business; parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building; and obstructing a law enforcement officer.
Another New Jersey resident has been unofficially identified from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, while federal authorities continue to file charges against participants two weeks after the deadly riot.
Video footage posted to Youtube by Just Another Channel shows Stephanie Hazelton, of Medford, who also goes by the name Ayla Wolf, shouting instructions to others in the crowd, as reported by Philadelphia Magazine.
In the video, the woman that the magazine identified as Hazelton shouts repeatedly for more men to join those pushing their way inside the federal building, in which members of Congress were ushered into protective isolation as the mob broke windows and scaled walls to enter.