Pipe bombs placed at RNC, DNC night before Capitol riot; feds up reward to $100,000 Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY UP NEXT
Federal authorities believe that pipe bombs discovered at the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees during the Capitol riots were placed there on the night before the siege.
The FBI, in a new appeal for public assistance Friday, released images of a unidentified suspect dressed in a gray hoodie, distinctive Nike shoes and carrying a backpack who is believed to have delivered the live explosives to the locations between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Jan. 5.
In an attempt to inject new urgency in the search for the suspect, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives upped a reward for information in the case from $75,000 to $100,000. Prominently featured in the FBI appeal are images of the suspect s footwear, described as Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes in yellow, black, and gray.
shooting of an off-duty deputy has been arrested, Durham County Sheriff Clarence F. Birkhead announced Thursday.
Jerry JRocc Lamont Harris Jr. of Durham, had been wanted in connection with the November 14 shooting. He was found in a home in the 2400 block of Vesson Avenue shortly after 11 a.m. and was taken into custody without incident, the sheriff said.
Harris, 26, was identified by investigators as a suspect more than two months ago and had been on Durham s Most Wanted list ever since. At the time of the shooting, Harris was on federal probation and had previously been arrested multiple times for a variety of offenses in Durham County.
Photograph by Evy Mages
For anyone following last Wednesday’s riot at the US Capitol, George Washington University’s Program on Extremism has established an indispensable database of court records related to the event, and the collection is sure to grow. Here are some eyebrow-raising quotes from the documents so far.
Around 7:20 PM on January 6, DC police officer Dallan Haynes writes, he was helping to clear the area in front of the Capitol an hour and a half after DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s curfew. Haynes says he was escorting people past a police line when:
As I approached ALBERTS from his rear, I noticed a bulge on ALBERTS’ right hip. Based on my training and experience, I recognized the bulge was consistent with that of a hand gun. … ALBERTS was also wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying a backpack. At that point, I told two MPD officers next to him that ALBERTS had a firearm on his person. ALBERTS, apparently hearing that, immediately tried to flee, but I was ab