Federal authorities have arrested a north-central Missouri man on felony charges that he took a firearm onto the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 riot.
Jerod Thomas Bargar, of Centralia, Missouri, was arrested in Osage Beach on Wednesday, according to court documents. He faces felony offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm on Capitol grounds or buildings. He also is charged with related misdemeanors.
The firearm was a 9mm semi-automatic pistol “held in a distinctive holster that displayed an image of the American flag and had the words ‘We The People’ written on it,” the charging document said.
