Less than a week after the riot in Washington DC, a Grapevine man has been charged with a string of federal crimes.
One the day of the riot, social media began to bristle with photographs and videos showing scores of the rioters, many of them inside the US Capitol chambers and even inside the offices of Congressional leaders.
One of the commonly seen photos shows a man in a military style helmet and body armor, gripping a fistful of zip tie handcuffs.
A civilian cyber-threat researcher named John Scott-Railton started trying to identify the man. He tells the New Yorker he used a lot of tools like image enhancement and facial recognition to pin down the identity of a Grapevine man named Larry Rendell Brock.
The FBI took that information and arrested Brock yesterday. He's now charged in the federal court in Washington D.C., up on charges such as knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
These cases are being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and the Counterterrorism Section of the DOJ's National Security Division, with assistance from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas.
