85 Pennsylvanians have been arrested to date in the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol

Democracy didn’t die in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, despite the efforts of state Republicans like Doug Mastriano and Scott Perry, and the 85 Pennsylvanians who have been arrested to date for participating in the deadly attack on the US Capitol.

Pennsylvania is inextricably linked to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol, in which five people died and dozens were seriously injured after a swarm of Donald Trump supporters — fresh from being told to “fight like hell” by the former president at a nearby “Stop the Steal” rally — descended upon the Capitol with the intent to upend democracy by any means necessary. 

Major political players in the state, such as state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-Franklin) and US Rep. Scott Perry (R-Dauphin), allegedly played significant roles in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election — a failed criminal venture that led to the attack on the Capitol. 

Mastriano was recently named in a Senate ethics complaint regarding his actions to undermine the commonwealth’s 2020 election results. He also chartered a bus on the day of the insurrection, using campaign funds, and took followers to the rally. Perry’s communications with Trump officials and Pennsylvania Republicans have placed him at the center of Trump’s efforts to overturn the commonwealth’s 2020 election results.

Then there is the role that Pennsylvanians played on the ground in the Jan. 6 attack. Some 85 Pennsylvania residents were arrested for taking part in the insurrection, tying the commonwealth with Texas for the second highest total among states. According to arrest records from the Department of Justice, 95 Floridians were arrested for participating in the attack, the highest total of any state.

To date, 52 Pennsylvanians have been sentenced, with others expected to be sentenced this month. Three died (two by suicide) while awaiting sentencing, and two others, a married couple, moved out of state before being sentenced. 

Overall, according to the DOJ, more than 1,230 defendants have been arrested in nearly all 50 states and Washington, D.C. in connection with the attack, accused of crimes ranging from trespassing, a misdemeanor, to seditious conspiracy, a felony. More than 350 cases are still pending. Around 170 people have been convicted at trial, while only two people have been fully acquitted. Approximately 710 people have pleaded guilty and among those, around 210 pleaded guilty to felony offenses.

Here’s where things stand with each of the 85 Pennsylvanians arrested to date in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.

Terry Allen – Spring Mills

Allen, 65, was arrested in July 2023. He was sentenced to two years in prison and two years of supervised release in November 2023 for assaulting police with a flagpole and a metal bar during the Capitol attack. 

Melanie Archer – Shaler

Archer pleaded guilty in October 2022 to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. She is awaiting sentencing.

Joshua Lee Atwood – Burgettstown

Atwood, 31, pleaded guilty in September to assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon during the Jan. 6 attack. He was arrested by the FBI in April and was scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 20.

Mark Roderick Aungst – South Williamsport

Aungst pleaded guilty in June 2022 to one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He died by suicide in July 2022 while awaiting sentencing.

State Sen. Doug Mastriano and former state Rep. Rick Saccone, outside the US Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021 (Facebook screen grab).

Dawn Bancroft – Doylestown

Bancroft was sentenced in July 2022 to 60 days of incarceration, three years of probation, 100 hours of community service, and $500 in restitution for charges including disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.

Steven Boyd Barber – Scranton

Barber was arrested in July 2023 and faces charges including entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

Pauline Bauer – Kane

Bauer pleaded not guilty in May 2021 to charges including obstruction of justice and Congress. Bauer was near then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite during the riot when she yelled at police officers to bring out the California Democrat so the mob of Donald Trump supporters could hang her. She was sentenced in January 2023 to more than two years in prison.

FILE – Pauline Bauer leans against a wooden statue outside Bob’s Trading Post, her restaurant in Hamilton, Pa., July 21, 2021. Bauer, who screamed death threats directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)

Craig Michael Bingert – Allentown 

Bingert pleaded not guilty in August 2021 to charges including obstructing and assaulting officers. Along with others, Bingert grabbed a metal bike rack and pushed it hard against the police, resulting in injury to at least one officer. He was sentenced in September 2023 to 96 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.

William Blauser Jr. – Kane 

Blauser pleaded guilty in November 2021 to violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. He was sentenced to pay a $500 fine and $500 in restitution in February 2022.

William Blauser Jr. sits on a picnic table outside Bob’s Trading Post in Hamilton, Pa., on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Blauser, a Vietnam War veteran and retired mail carrier, and his friend, Bob’s Trading Post owner Pauline Bauer, were arrested in May on federal charges stemming from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)

Jordan Bonenberger – Cranberry 

Bonenberger was arrested in March 2022 on charges including disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. 

Leo Brent Bozell IV – Palmyra 

Son of prominent conservative activist Leo Brent Bozell III, Bozell was arrested in February 2021 on charges including disorderly conduct, knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, and obstructing an official proceeding. He pleaded not guilty in March 2021 and was found guilty in September 2023 of 10 charges, including five felonies. He was sentenced last May to nearly four years in prison for what prosecutors said was his “relentless” assault on the U.S. Capitol, where he smashed a window, chased a police officer and invaded the Senate floor.

Tammy A. Bronsburg – Williamsport 

Bronsburg pleaded guilty in June 2022 to charges including violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. She was sentenced in January 2023 to 14 days in jail and $500 in restitution. 

Terry Brown – Myerstown

Brown was charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and was sentenced in December 2021 to 30 days of home detention, 36 months of probation, 60 hours of community service, and was given a $500 fine. 

Alan William Byerly – Fleetwood 

Byerly was sentenced in October 2022 to 34 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution for using a stun gun against police officers and assaulting an Associated Press photographer.

Cameron Campanella – York

Campanella was arrested in June 2023 and faces charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in Capitol buildings.

Thomas Carey – Pittsburgh

Carey was arrested in September 2022 on charges including entering and remaining in a restricted building.

Christy Clark – Lewistown

Clark pleaded guilty to charges including violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. She was sentenced in October 2022 to 24 months of probation, 60 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Matthew Clark – Lewistown

Clark pleaded guilty to charges including violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in October 2022 to 24 months in prison, 60 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Daniel Collins – Greentown

Collins, 43, was arrested last August on charges of assaulting police during the Jan. 6 attack. Collins was captured on video using his body weight to impede law enforcement’s attempts to clear the Capitol rotunda. Later that evening, Collins was filmed laughing and showing video, on his phone, of the assault aftermath while saying “I lived that s**t” and “I think I’m going to jail soon.”

Esvetlana Cramer – Scranton

Cramer was arrested in July 2023 and faces charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. People charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol left behind a trove of videos and messages that have helped federal authorities build cases. In nearly half of the more than 200 federal cases stemming from the attack, authorities have cited evidence that an insurrectionist appeared to have been inspired by conspiracy theories or extremist ideologies, according to an Associated Press review of court records. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Kim Eugene Decker – Genesee

Decker was arrested last February and charged with a felony offense of civil disorder and misdemeanor offenses of entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

Michael James Dickinson – Philadelphia

Dickinson pleaded guilty in September 2022 to charges including assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings. He was sentenced in February 2023 to 20 months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release, and restitution of $2,000.

Gary Edwards – Southampton 

Edwards pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in December 2021 to one year of probation, including 200 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and $500 in restitution. 

Joseph Fischer – North Cornwall Township 

Fischer was charged in February 2021 with obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, entering a restricted building, violent entry, disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and obstruction of justice. 

Samuel Christopher Fox – Mount Pleasant 

Fox pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in April 2022 to 36 months of probation, including 60 days of home detention. He was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and $500 in restitution. 

Lowell Gates – Mechanicsburg

Gates was charged with two felonies in August 2023, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain offices using a dangerous weapon and obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder. Body camera footage shows Gates using a flagpole as a spear and assaulting police officers with it. 

Lowell Gates at the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 (Photo: DOJ)

Raechel Genco – Levittown 

Genco pleaded guilty to knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. She was sentenced in September 2022 to 12 months of probation, 60 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Isaiah Giddings – Philadelphia

Giddings, a member of the Proud Boys, pleaded guilty in December 2022 to charges including unlawful entry of restricted buildings or grounds, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. He is awaiting sentencing. 

Kenneth Giusini – Philadelphia

Giusini was arrested last February and charged with a felony offense of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, along with several misdemeanor charges. According to court documents, Giusini, 67, was stopped by a line of officers in the Capitol that was blocking rioters, and Giusini proceeded to film officers for over a minute before he was pushed outside. Giusini attempted to get back into the Capitol and is seen on body camera footage shoving an officer. Another police officer removed Giusini from the area. However, Giusini returned and continued to use his shoulder to push against police before being removed again. In court papers, investigators said Giusini’s ex-girlfriend helped identify him in photos and videos posted to social media recording his movements in Washington that day. If convicted, Giusini faces up to five years in prison.

Kenneth Grayson – Bridgeville 

Grayson pleaded guilty to interfering with a law enforcement officer during civil disorder. He was sentenced in December 2022 to two months in prison, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in fines. 

Brian Gunderson – State College 

Gunderson was found guilty in November 2022 of obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers. He faces a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison on the obstruction charge, as well as a statutory maximum of eight years in prison for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers.

Brian Healion – Upper Darby 

Healion, a former member of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, was sentenced in July 2023 to 100 days in prison after previously pleading guilty to a felony charge of civil disorder in February. The 33-year-old also received 36 months of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Jennifer Heinl – Pittsburgh

Heinl pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. She was sentenced in June 2022 to two years of probation, including 14 days of intermittent incarceration, 50 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Annie Howell – Swoyersville

Howell pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. She was sentenced in March 2022 to 36 months of probation, including 60 days of intermittent incarceration, 60 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Brian Korte – York Haven

Korte was arrested in May 2022 on charges including entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct. 

Jackson Kostolsky – Allentown 

Kostolsky pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in November 2022 to three years of probation, including 30 days of home detention, and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Samuel Lazar – Ephrata 

Lazar, who cooperated with authorities, was arrested in July 2021 and sentenced in secret to 30 months in prison during a sealed hearing in March 2022. He was released from federal custody in September 2022. Lazar admitted to spraying a chemical irritant at police officers who were trying to defend the Capitol and to using a bullhorn to encourage other rioters to take officers’ weapons as he yelled, “Let’s get their guns!”

Deborah Lee – Olyphant 

Lee was arrested in August 2021 and charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. 

Michael Lopatic – Manheim Township

Lopatic died at age 57 in June 2022 after being arrested and charged with civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive entry, and disorderly conduct. He allegedly punched a police officer in the head repeatedly during the attack. According to PennLive.com, a cause of death was not released, but Lopatic was known to have numerous health issues, including a benign brain tumor.

Carson Lucard – Norristown 

Lucard pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in June 2022 to 36 months of probation with 21 days of intermittent confinement, 60 days of home detention, and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

FILE – Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Debra Maimone, Phillip Vogel – New Castle 

Maimone and Vogel, who are married, pleaded not guilty to charges including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Both were released on their own recognizance and are believed to be working toward a plea deal. 

Ian MacBride – Douglassville

McBride was arrested last January and charged with a felony offense of obstruction of an official proceeding, along with several misdemeanor offenses. According to court documents, MacBride, 43, entered the building through the Senate wing door just five minutes after the initial breach and stole a U.S. Capitol Police sign that said “area closed.” He later posted on a social media forum, stating, “Hung my Capitol battle flags and ill gotten ‘Area Closed’ sign up in my bar tonight.” In the days following the events of Jan. 6, MacBride posted on a social media forum that, “I don’t regret my part in occupying the building.”

Jeanette Mangia – New Cumberland

Mangia stormed the Capitol with her husband, Joseph Pastucci, who was found guilty last April of assaulting law enforcement and multiple other charges. The FBI arrested the couple in April 2023 after receiving an anonymous tip. Pastucci had to be pushed out of the Capitol by United States Capitol Police officers. After flopping to the ground, Mangia had to be dragged out. As she was being dragged out, Mangia kicked an officer in the groin. Mangia is currently awaiting trial.

Edward McAlanis – Stevens 

McAlanis pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in February 2022 to two years of probation, including 60 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Richard Michetti – Ridley Park 

Michetti pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting. He was sentenced in September 2022 to nine months of incarceration, 24 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Jorden Mink – Oakdale

Mink was arrested in March 2021 on charges including violent entry, disorderly conduct, and physical violence on Capitol grounds. He swung aggressively at officers with a long pole. Mink was sentenced in June 2023 to 51 months in prison.

Anthony Richard Moat – Philadelphia

Moat pleaded guilty in October 2022 to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in September 2023 to 10 days incarceration and ordered to pay $500 restitution.  

Robert Morss – Glenshaw

Morss was found guilty of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon and robbery. In May 2023, he was sentenced to 66 months in prison.

Rachel Myers – Philadelphia

Myers pleaded guilty in November 2022 to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

Mark Nealy – Harrisburg

Nealy was arrested in June 2023 on charges of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in any Capitol building.

Marshall Neefe – Newville

Neefe pleaded guilty in May 2022 to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon. He also pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting. He was sentenced in September 2022 to 41 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Lynwood Nester – Dillsburg 

Nester was arrested in May 2022 on charges including entering or remaining in a restricted building. 

Anthony Nolf – Birdsboro

Anthony Nolf was sentenced last June to three months in prison, five months home detention, and 36 months of supervised release after pleading guilty to a felony charge of civil disorder. Nolf, 38, was also ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. Nolf brought his minor son to the Capitol on Jan. 6, as did his sister, 37-year-old Heather Kepley of Delaware, who was also arrested for participating in the attack. She is awaiting sentencing.

Kelly O’Brien – Allentown

O’Brien pleaded guilty in January 2022 to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. She was sentenced in April 2022 to 90 days of incarceration and 12 months of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $500 in restitution and a $1,000 fine.

Joseph Pastucci – New Cumberland

Pastucci was convicted last April of three felony offenses, including obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, and assaulting officers, along with eight misdemeanor charges. Pastucci stormed the Capitol with his wife, Jeanette Mangia, who is currently awaiting trial for her role in the insurrection. After receiving an anonymous tip, the FBI arrested the couple in April 2023. According to the Department of Justice, after breaching the Capitol, the couple entered former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite where Pastucci took photos of Mangia.

Nicholas Perretta – Baden

Perretta pleaded guilty to knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. He was sentenced to 30 days of incarceration and ordered to pay $500 in restitution in January 2022.

Russell James Peterson – Rochester 

Peterson pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced to 30 days of incarceration and ordered to pay $500 in restitution in December 2021. 

Matthew Perna – Sharpsville 

Perna was arrested in January 2021 and charged with entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. While awaiting sentencing in 2022, Perna died by suicide. He was 37. 

Michael Pomeroy – Harrisburg 

Pomeroy was arrested in May 2022 on charges including entering or remaining in a restricted building. 

Gerald Powell – York

Powell was arrested last May on charges including civil disorder and entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds. According to court documents, Powell, 51, was identified among a crowd of rioters on the east front of the Capitol grounds wrestling with police for control of a line of bike rack barricades and police barriers.

Rachel Marie Powell – Sandy Lake 

Powell was indicted in March 2021 on multiple charges, including committing an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon. She was sentenced in October 2023 to 57 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release. Powell was also ordered to pay more than $8,000 in restitution, fines, and fees.

James Rahm Jr. – Philadelphia 

Rahm was sentenced in January 2023 to one year in prison for obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony; one year in prison for each of the following misdemeanors: entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, and  disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; and six months in prison for the misdemeanors of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. All sentences were to run concurrently. Rahm filmed himself stating, among other things, “We broke the door down. We’re going in,” and “We’re taking our f—— house back. We’re here.”

James Rahm III – Philadelphia

Rahm pleaded not guilty in April 2021 of obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He remains free on his own recognizance.

FILE – Proud Boys members Zachary Rehl, left, and Ethan Nordean, left, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Zachary Rehl – Philadelphia 

Rehl was among five members of the Proud Boys, including the group’s former national chairman, who were tried for seditious conspiracy and eight other charges in connection to the Capitol riot. Rehl, the former leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in August 2023. At the time, it was the third longest sentence handed down in the attack.

Howard Charles Richardson – King of Prussia

Richardson, who was photographed attacking a police officer with a Trump flag during the Capitol riot, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon or inflicting bodily injury. He was sentenced in August 2022 to 46 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. 

This image from police-worn body cam video and contained in the statement of facts supporting the arrest warrant for Howard Richardson, shows Richardson swinging a metal flagpole on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Richardson was sentenced Aug. 26, 2022, to 46 months in federal prison for attacking a police officer with a Trump flag during the Capitol riot, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. (Department of Justice via AP)

Leonard Ridge – Feasterville

Ridge pleaded guilty to entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds. He was sentenced in January 2022 to 14 days of incarceration, one year of supervised release, 100 hours of community service, given a $1,000 fine, and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

James Robinson – Schwenksville 

Robinson was arrested in August 2022 on charges including disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds.

Samuel Rodriguez – Emmaus 

Rodriguez pleaded guilty in November 2022 to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in February 2023 to 12 months probation and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

Michael Rusyn – Olyphant 

Rusyn pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in January 2022 to 24 months of probation, including 60 days of home confinement, and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine and $500 in restitution.

Ryan Samsel – Levittown 

Samsel was arrested on Jan. 30, 2021 on multiple charges, including assaulting a federal agent. He has remained in jail since, and was accused in June 2022 of writing a letter talking about “getting rid of politicians” with a woodchipper.

Robert Sanford – Boothwyn 

Sanford, a former firefighter, pleaded guilty to attacking police with a fire extinguisher in September 2022. He was sentenced in April 2023 to more than four years in prison.

Dustin Sargent – Kunkletown

Sargent was indicted in February 2023 on charges of obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting; civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in any Capitol building.

Frank Scavo – Old Forge 

Scavo pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in November 2022 to 60 days in prison and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and $500 in restitution. 

Peter Schwartz – Uniontown 

In December 2022, a jury found Schwartz guilty of assaulting or resisting law enforcement using a dangerous weapon, interfering with law enforcement, and obstruction. He was sentenced in May 2023 to a then-record-setting 14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray and a chair as he stormed the Capitol with his wife.

In this image from a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer’s body-worn video camera, released and annotated by the Justice Department in the Government’s Sentencing Memorandum, Peter Schwartz circled in red is shown using a canister of pepper spray against officers on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Schwartz on Friday, May 5, 2023, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray as he stormed the U.S. Capitol with his wife. (Justice Department via AP)

Jarret Scott – Pen Argyl

Scott was arrested last June along with his father Tighe Scott, and charged with felony counts including impeding officers and interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder. The Scotts traveled to the Capitol on Jan. 6 with another father-son pair, Scott Slater Sr. and Scott Slater Jr., both of Saylorsburg. According to court documents, Tighe Scott was seen on police body-cam footage punching at one officer’s riot shield and attempting to rip a shield out of the hands of another. His son, who is 48, pushed back against police lines while wielding a golf club, hurling expletives at officers, calling one a “fat motherf**ker.” The Scotts each face up to five years in prison if convicted on the most serious charges against him.

Tighe Scott – Pen Argyl

Scott, a retired NASCAR driver, was arrested last June, along with his son, Jarrett Scott, and charged with felony counts including impeding officers and interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder. The Scotts traveled to the Capitol on Jan. 6 with another father-son pair, Scott Slater Sr. and Scott Slater Jr., both of Saylorsburg. Scott, 75, faces up to five years in prison if convicted on the most serious charges against him.

Barton Wade Shively – Mechanicsburg 

Shively was sentenced in June 2023 to 18 months in prison, for two counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers. Shively pleaded guilty in September 2022. In addition to the prison term, Shively received 36 months of supervised release and a fine/restitution of $2,000.

Brian Sizer – Ellwood City 

Sizer pleaded guilty in January 2023 to charges including entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct in the Capitol, and in a restricted building. His wife, Julia Sizer, was also arrested for participating in the attack. He is reportedly working on a plea deal with prosecutors.

Julia Sizer – Ellwood City 

Sizer pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. She was sentenced in February 2022 to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine and $500 in restitution. 

Scott Slater Sr., Scott Slater Jr. – Saylorsburg

The Slaters were arrested last June on felony counts including impeding officers and interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder. The Slaters traveled to the Capitol on Jan. 6 with another father-son pair, Tighe and Jarret Scott. Slater Jr., 26, is seen on body-cam footage throwing a flagpole toward a line of police officers, striking one of them. The Slaters face up to five years in prison if convicted on the most serious charges against them.

Mikhail Edward Slye – Meadville 

Slye was arrested in September 2022 and pleaded guilty to the charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers, a felony. In June, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, 18 months supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 of restitution. 

Diana Santos-Smith – Upper Black Eddy 

Santos-Smith pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. She was sentenced in July 2022 to 20 days of incarceration, 3 years of probation, 100 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

Dale Shalvey, Tara Stottlemyer – Bentleyville 

Shalvey pleaded guilty in October 2022 to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, inflicting bodily injury, and obstruction of an official proceeding. In May 2023, Shalvey was sentenced to 41 months in prison, 24 months of supervised release, and a fine/restitution for $2,000. Shalvey is married to Tara Stottlemyer, who pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding. She was sentenced along with her husband to eight months in prison, 24 months of supervised release, and a fine/restitution of $2,000. The couple now lives in North Carolina.

Charles Bradford Smith – Shippensburg 

Smith pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. He also pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting. He was sentenced in September 2022 to 41 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. 

Paul Spigelmyer – Lewistown

Spigelmyer pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in October 2022 to 24 months of probation, including 45 days of home detention, He was also given 60 hours of community service and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

Brian Stenz – Norristown 

Stenz pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in February 2022 to 36 months of probation, including 14 consecutive days of incarceration, and two months of home detention. He was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and $500 in restitution.

Christina Traugh – Harrisburg

Traugh was arrested in June 2023 on charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

Matthew and Andrew Valentin – Stroudsburg

Two brothers from Stroudsburg were arrested last February for assaulting officers during the Jan. 6 attack. Matthew Valentin, 31, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. Andrew Valentin, 26, pleaded guilty to one felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and a second felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Both are scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 17.

Jeremy Vorous – Venango 

Vorous pleaded not guilty in April 2021 to charges including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, as well as obstruction of an official proceeding. He remains free on his own recognizance.

Mitchell Paul Vukich – New Brighton 

Vukich pleaded guilty to knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. He was sentenced in January 2022 to 30 days of incarceration and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. 

Freedom Vy – Havertown 

Vy was arrested in December 2021 on charges including unlawful entry on restricted buildings or grounds and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts and is awaiting sentencing.

Philip Walker – Upper Chichester

Walker, 49, was arrested along with his brother (a New Jersey resident) in September on charges of assaulting a New York Times photographer inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack. Walker told the FBI that he believed the photographer was a member of “antifa,” a term for anti-fascist activists who often clash with far-right extremists at political protests.

Sandra Suzanne Weyer – Mechanicsburg 

Weyer was arrested in June 2021 on charges including obstruction of proceedings, aiding and abetting, and violent entry or disorderly conduct. She was sentenced in September 2023 to 14 months in prison, 12 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution and fines.

Gary Wickersham – West Chester 

Wickersham pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in December 2021 to 36 months of probation, including 90 days of home detention. He was also ordered to pay a $2,000 fine and $500 in restitution.

FILE – This booking photo provided by the Dauphin County, Pa., Prison, shows Riley June Williams. The Harrisburg woman linked to the far-right “Groyper” extremist movement, was sentenced Thursday, March 23, 2023, to three years in prison for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. (Dauphin County Prison via AP)

Riley June Williams – Harrisburg 

In November 2022, a jury found Williams guilty of six of the eight charges against her for being part of the group that stormed then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. Williams was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2023.

Andrew Wrigley – Jim Thorpe 

Wrigley pleaded guilty to demonstrating, parading, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced in December 2021 to 18 months of probation, and was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine and $500 in restitution.