CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A 30-year-old Fayetteville man admitted Friday to unleashing a chemical spray at police during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
James Phillip Mault, formerly of Brockport, New York, pleaded guilty Friday to the charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers, according to a news release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia.
Mault sprayed the chemical toward officers as he hung from the wood frame surrounding the arch of a tunnel that leads into the Capitol building, prosecutors said.
