(WWJ) An Upper Peninsula man has taken a plea to a single charge stemming from the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.
Jeremy Ryan Sorvisto, of Hancock, Michigan, pleaded guilty on Friday to one misdemeanor count of parading or demonstrating in the U.S. Capitol.
Jeremy Ryan Sorvisto -FBI
In a deal with prosecutors, charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building were dropped.
Sorvisto is one of 11 Michigan residents charged in what some have called an insurrection, when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol while Congress was counting electoral votes to formalize President Joe Biden's victory over then President Donald Trump.
The FBI said Sorvisto drove to Washington, D.C. with Karl Dresch, of Calumet, who was the first Michigander charged in the high-profile case.
Social media photos showed the pair inside the Capitol at the time of the riots, according to federal investigators.
Sorvisto faces up to six months in jail and has agreed to pay $500 as part of the $1.5 million in restitution owed to fix the damage at the Capitol.
His sentencing is scheduled for November 19.
