CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) -- A western New York man who told a Buffalo TV station he tried to light media equipment on fire as a "symbolic gesture" outside the U.S. Capitol last week has been arrested by the FBI.
WIVB-TV reports that Pete Harding was arrested at about 4 p.m. Wednesday at a friend's home in Elma, New York, one day after the FBI released a poster that linked him to the pro-Trump rally that turned into a breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Harding's home in Cheektowaga was searched by the FBI earlier Wednesday.
His attorney, Jason DiPasquale, told the TV station that the charges his client faces are unclear. Harding is expected to appear in federal court Thursday.