A Plymouth man and former Boston Police Department officer has been arrested on felony charges, for his actions during the January 6, 2021 Capitol Breach.
According to a press release from the Department of Justice, 52-year-old Joseph Robert Fisher was arrested at his home, he is expected to make an initial appearance today at the Boston federal courthouse.
Fisher is accused of entering the capitol building by the Senate Wing Door, and got into an altercation with a U.S. Capitol Police Officer.
As an officer chased a rioter who deployed pepper spray, Fisher was accused of pushing a chair into the officer and getting into a physical altercation. Shortly after, he left the Capitol building.
Fisher is charged in a criminal complaint with the felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, and the misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, acts of physical violence the Capitol grounds or building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
The actions during the January 6th breach disrupted a joint session of congress to count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
More than 1,000 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach. More than 320 people are charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
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