CHICAGO — A suburban man has been arrested on charges alleging he entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and physically grabbed the baton of a police officer trying to push back the unruly mob in the building’s rotunda.
Tyng Jing Yang, of Hoffman Estates, was charged in a criminal complaint made public in U.S. District Court in Washington with a felony count of interfering with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder and four related misdemeanor offenses. He is expected to make an initial appearance Wednesday afternoon in Chicago’s federal court.
According to the charges, surveillance cameras captured Yang, 60, as he entered the Capitol through building’s upper west terrace doors and made his way up a flight of stairs and into a lobby area outside the rotunda.
