2 Proud Boys charged with conspiracy in Capitol riot; 1 had bomb-making manual on thumb drive, feds
ROCHESTER, NY – Federal prosecutors on Friday announced conspiracy charges against two members of the Proud Boys, an extremist group with ties to white nationalism, in relation to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Dominic Pezzola, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran from Rochester, New York, and William Pepe, an employee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from Beacon, New York, were indicted on a slew of new charges late Friday. According to the New York Times, this is the first conspiracy indictment related to the Proud Boys.
Pezzola was charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding a United Stated Capitol police officer, according to the FBI. He possessed a thumb drive containing instructions on how to make homemade firearms, poisons, and explosives, federal prosecutors revealed in a detention application Friday.
Some of the documents on the thumb drive are titled "Advanced Improvised Explosives" and "Ragnar's Big Book of Homemade Weapons." Prosecutors are arguing Pezzola, 43, should be held without bail pending his trial. FBI agents recovered the thumb drive after executing a search warrant on Pezzola's home on Jan. 15.
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