NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A Staten Island man and a retired FDNY firefighter from Long Island have been charged with participating in the Capitol riot, according to officials and reports.
Former Fashion Institute of Technology student Nicolas Moncada, 20, “is now in custody for his role in assaulting the U.S. Capitol while our representatives were inside performing their Constitutional duties,” William Sweeney Jr., the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office, said in a statement released Monday morning.
Moncada posted a photo of himself on Instagram standing outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the riot, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said.
Retired FDNY firefighter Thomas Fee, of Freeport, Long Island, meanwhile, was also charged for participating in the riot on Monday, but hadn’t been arrested as of Monday afternoon, a senior official told NBC New York.
Fee worked as an FDNY firefighter for 22 years before retiring in October, according to the outlet. He allegedly “sent photo evidence of himself inside the Capitol to a close contact who works within a branch of the State Department,” the outlet reported.
According to a court complaint, the campus security office at FIT brought Moncada to the FBI's attention after faculty members and students saw him posting about the insurrection, in which a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters sought to disrupt Congress' certification of President-Elect Joe Biden's victory.
Moncada's posts included Instagram videos of officers on the Capitol steps, as seen through nearby scaffolding, and what appeared to be blood on the stairs. The images prompted one of Moncada's contacts to ask what was going on, the complaint said.
"Storming the Capitol Building,'' he replied, later adding that it was where the Senate and House were certifying the vote. Another of Moncada's videos, apparently later deleted, showed rioters screaming at Capitol Police officers inside the building.
"Nothing to see here Instagram!'' the caption read, according to the complaint. Moncada also posted a photo of himself "outside Pelosi's office."
Attorney information for the two men wasn’t immediately available Monday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.