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In this Facebook screenshot included in an FBI search affidavit, Karl Dresch stands with a Trump flag in the U.S. Capitol, where Trump supporters had overrun security in an effort to halt the certification of Joe Bidenâs electoral votes.
MARQUETTE Hours after Joe Biden became president, a Calumet man appeared in federal court in connection with the mob that unsuccessfully tried to stop Congress from certifying his election.
Karl Dresch of Calumet is believed to be the first Michigan resident criminally charged for alleged involvement in the Capitol riots by President Donald J. Trump supporters on Jan. 6, shortly after the House and Senate had adjourned to their chambers to discuss an objection to Arizona’s results.