One month later, after plotting with underlings in several states, the indictment said, Mr. “We aren’t getting through this without a civil war,” he wrote on the encrypted chat app Signal. Rhodes told several members of his group to refuse to accept Mr. Rhodes’s activities starting only days after the 2020 election. Over 48 pages, the new indictment painted a detailed picture of Mr. But there is no evidence that he entered the Capitol.
6, communicating by cellphone and a chat app with members of his team, many of whom went into the building. Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper who went on to earn a law degree at Yale, had been under investigation for his role in the riot since at least last spring when, against the advice of his lawyer, he sat down with F.B.I. The teams included Oath Keepers from North Carolina, Florida and Arizona. Rhodes called upon them to support the plot, prosecutors said. Vallejo was part of the quick reaction force teams that the militia had deployed, which were equipped with firearms and other tactical equipment in case Mr. The nine other militia members named in the indictment had all previously been charged, although not with sedition. Rhodes, prosectors charged Edward Vallejo, 63, of Phoenix, for the first time in connection with Jan. Others, it said, were stationed in a hotel in Alexandria, Va., as an armed “quick reaction force,” ready to rush into Washington if needed. 6 and went in search of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the indictment said. Rhodes oversaw a seditious plot “to oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force.” Some members of the Oath Keepers under his command broke into the Capitol in a military-style formation on Jan. Prosecutors said that beginning only days after the 2020 election, Mr. The last time federal prosecutors brought a sedition case was in 2010, when they accused members of a Michigan militia of plotting to provoke an armed conflict with the government. It carries a maximum of sentence of 20 years in prison. The charge of seditious conspiracy, which can be difficult to prove, requires prosecutors to show that at least two people agreed to use force to overthrow government authority or delay the execution of a U.S. But it had not previously brought a sedition charge, with the legal weight and political overtones it carries about an election in a highly polarized country. The Justice Department has brought a variety of charges in connection with the Capitol attack it has prosecuted about 275 people for obstructing Congress’s duty to certify the 2020 presidential vote count, for example. at his home in Granbury, Texas, his lawyer, Jonathon Moseley, said. Rhodes was arrested shortly before 1 p.m. He and the other Oath Keepers are the first to be charged with sedition among the more than 700 people accused so far of taking part in the assault. Rhodes, 56, was a major development in the sprawling investigation of the Capitol attack. 6 last year and disrupt the certification of Joseph R. Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested on Thursday and charged along with 10 others with seditious conspiracy over what prosecutors said was their wide-ranging plot to storm the Capitol on Jan.
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