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June 23, 2021 7:50 pm An Indiana woman on Wednesday became the first defendant to be sentenced in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and avoided time behind bars, while a member of the Oath Keepers extremist group pleaded guilty in a conspiracy case and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in a major step forward for the massive investigation. The two developments signal that the cases against those charged in the deadly siege are slowly advancing, even as the U.S. Department of Justice and the courthouse in Washington, D.C., struggle under the weight of roughly 500 federal arrests a...

Indiana woman is first to receive sentencing in Capitol riot Rioters loyal to then-President Trump breach the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. (John Minchillo / AP Photo) Associated Press Print An Indiana woman on Wednesday became the first defendant to be sentenced in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and avoided time behind bars, while a member of the Oath Keepers extremist group pleaded guilty in a conspiracy case and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in a major step forward for the massive investigation. The two developments signal that the cases against those char...

Published June 14. 2021 7:02PM  Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post A Northern Virginia couple on Monday became the first defendants to plead guilty only to misdemeanor charges in the Capitol riots, agreeing to accept a federal criminal conviction, pay $500 in restitution and let a judge decide the possibility of prison time. The plea deal entered by Joshua Bustle, 35, and Jessica Bustle, 36, could set a model for about 200 first-time offenders charged only with misdemeanors in connection to Jan. 6 such as trespassing or disorderly conduct on restricted grounds in and around the Capitol. Jos...

View Comments While more arrests are expected from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the courts have started to offer plea deals to those already charged, and two may come from Pennsylvania. The government expects to broker pleas in many of the low-level cases, U.S. prosecutors have said in court. The requirement for defendants to receive a speedy trial weighs on the Department of Justice, bogged down by a heavy caseload from the Capitol arrests. The FBI has arrested more than 470 for the Capitol rioting, 44 of them from Pennsylvania, as of June 9. The FBI tracked them inside th...

Charges brought on far-right groups following deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot By Michael Kunzelman and Alanna Durkin Richer Published  Timeline of the riot at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 What started as a congressional and democratic exercise in the peaceful transfer of power, devolved into death, destruction and chaos. WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen 2020 election united right-wing supporters, conspiracy theorists and militants on Jan. 6, but the aftermath of the insurrection is roiling two of the most prominent far-right extremist groups at the U.S. Capitol ...