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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
National
Jeremy Roebuck

A QAnon follower who showed up to Philly’s 2020 vote count in a Hummer filled with guns is now facing Capitol riot charges

PHILADELPHIA — One of two Virginia men awaiting trial in Philadelphia for driving a Hummer filled with weapons to the Pennsylvania Convention Center during the counting of the 2020 election vote has been arrested again — this time for taking part in the Capitol riot.

FBI agents took Antonio LaMotta, 63, into custody Tuesday in Chesapeake, Va., according to court records. A judge in Philadelphia had previously denied a request from prosecutors to revoke his bail for his presence in Washington on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

At the time, LaMotta’s attorney, Lauren Wimmer, said there was no evidence her client had entered the building and that the social media video prosecutors presented to the court only showed him at a rally that day in support of President Donald Trump.

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