Insurgent
- Nordean and Biggs Jailed
A federal judge on Monday jailed two Proud Boys leaders pending trial in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, handing a victory to U.S. prosecutors in a closely watched conspiracy case accusing the pair of planning to disrupt Congress and leading as many as 60 others to impede police that day. U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly of Washington acknowledged that online organizers Ethan Nordean, 30, of Seattle and Joseph Randall Biggs, 37, of Ormond Beach, Fla., “lacked most of the usual markers of dangerousness” relied on by judges to detain other Jan. 6 defendants, saying that neither was armed, assaulted police or had a criminal record. 1
- The Washington Post, Spencer S. Hsu, April 19, 2021 – Judge jails two Proud Boys leaders pending trial tied to Jan. 6 Capitol riot
- First Superseding Indictment
On January 6, 2021, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendants, ETHAN NORDEAN, JOSEPH BIGGS, ZACH REHL, and CHARLES DONOHOE did knowingly, and with intent to impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, engage in disorderly and disruptive conduct in and within such proximity to, a restricted building and grounds, that is, any posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise restricted area within the United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President and Vice President-Elect were temporarily visiting, when and so that such conduct did in fact impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions. (In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 17 52( a )(2))
