The Federal Bureau of Investigation remains "committed to finding, investigating and bringing to justice those responsible for" the Jan. 6, 2021, violence at the U.S. Capitol.
According to a Jan. 4 FBI news release, the FBI remains in collaboration with law enforcement partners across the country, including the U.S. Attorney's Office for Washington, D.C., to find those who attacked the Capitol in an "unsuccessful attempt to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election results."
"As we approach two years since the attack on the Capitol, the FBI and our partners’ investigative work continues to unfold across the country, resulting in significant judicial outcomes," David Sundberg, assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington field office, said in the release. "Some of the most egregious offenders, including those who attacked law enforcement officers, have received lengthy sentences, and the FBI continues to receive tips from the public, which help us bring remaining offenders to justice."
A crowd of Trump supporters march on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021.
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The FBI has located and detained more than 950 people in connection with in the Capitol incident. Nearly 200 people were detained for assaulting police officers, the release added.
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, the founder and head of the Oath Keepers, and Kelly Meggs, the head of the Florida chapter of the group, "were found guilty by a jury of seditious conspiracy and other charges for crimes connected to the breach of the Capitol," the release reported.
Another notable court outcome was that former police officer named Thomas Webster was given a 10-year jail sentence for "hitting a law enforcement officer with a flagpole, tackling him and attempting to remove his helmet and gas mask," the release added.
"In the months and years to come, the FBI Washington field office will continue to partner with U.S. attorney’s offices across the country to bring to justice those who attempted to use violence to substitute their will over the will of the people," Sundberg said in the release.
The FBI said its top priority continues to be "investigating the violent assaults on law enforcement officers, obstruction of justice, seditious conspiracy and multiple other federal crimes" committed during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to the release.
Bringing these perpetrators to justice required FBI agents, analysts and other staff to review almost four million files, including more than 30,000 files of video footage from five law enforcement agencies, surveillance camera footage from three law enforcement agencies and search warrant returns for digital devices, the release reported.
"For context, these files amount to over nine terabytes of information and would take at least 361 days to view continuously," the release said.
