Tontitown man arrested in Jan. 6 riots

Three and a half years after a mob of Donald Trump supporters rioted on the nation’s Capitol, the FBI has arrested a Tontitown man accused of assaulting an officer and different offenses that day.

The FBI arrested David Michael Camden, 45, in Fayetteville on Monday and launched him on an unsecured $5,000 bond. In line with a grievance written by an FBI agent and filed in U.S. District Court docket in Washington, D.C., Camden reportedly moved from Washington state to Arkansas after the coronavirus pandemic.

Camden is charged with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting or impeding sure officers and civil dysfunction. He’s additionally being charged with a number of misdemeanors, together with partaking in bodily violence in an unrestricted constructing or grounds; getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds; disorderly and disruptive content material in a restricted constructing or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol constructing; and, act of bodily violence within the Capitol grounds or buildings.

A court docket doc alleges that Camden shouted at law enforcement officials exterior the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and pushed a bicycle rack barricade right into a line of officers. “In response, officers efficiently repelled Camden’s advance and deployed a chemical irritant in his course to preempt additional aggression,” the U.S. Justice Division mentioned in a information launch saying Camden’s arrest.

At about 2:11 p.m. that day, Camden allegedly deployed a hearth extinguisher towards a police line. “Camden later moved to a media tower assembled for the upcoming inauguration, and as soon as he arrived on the media tower, Camden climbed the tower and waved a ‘Three Percenters’ flag above the mob of rioters,” in line with the information launch. “Court docket paperwork say that “‘Three Percenters’ are an American far-right, anti-government militia.”

Rioters had been protesting certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory over Donald Trump.