A Raytown, Missouri, man who federal prosecutors say assaulted police and carried a pitchfork on the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 riot is facing nine charges, including multiple felonies.
Christopher Brian Roe, 39, was arrested Tuesday on some of the most serious charges to date among the 29 Capitol riot defendants from Missouri, federal court records show. The 27-page probable cause affidavit filed with the criminal complaint contains 48 photos that show a man it says is Roe breaching the Capitol, repeatedly scuffling with police and using a metal bicycle rack to try to break open a door.
Roe was charged July 12 with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; civil disorder; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; destruction of government property; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; act of physical violence in the Capitol ground or buildings; and parading, picketing and demonstrating in a Capitol building.
