A North Carolina man awaiting trial on expenses he assaulted two cops through the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol had an assault rifle and ammunition in his automobile when he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving earlier this month, based on prosecutors.
Justice Division prosecutors have requested a federal choose in Washington, D.C., to revoke 29-year-old James Tate Grant’s pretrial launch and order him detained after his latest arrest. One of many situations of Grant’s pretrial launch within the Jan. 6 riot case was that he not possess a firearm or every other weapon.
The choose didn’t instantly rule on Thursday’s request by prosecutors.
On Dec. 7, a police officer in Garner, North Carolina, responding to a report of a suicide menace discovered Grant pulling out of a restaurant’s parking., based on prosecutors. Grant, who seemed to be intoxicated, advised the officer about his involvement within the “January sixth incident,” then tried to flee whereas the officer positioned him below arrest, prosecutors stated.
“He then dropped to the bottom and acknowledged one thing to the impact of ‘Simply kill me now.’ He then acknowledged, ‘It’s over,’” prosecutors wrote in a courtroom submitting.
Police recovered an AR-15 assault rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, weapon equipment and fight fatigues from Grant’s automotive. Grant purchased the rifle in April from a North Carolina gun seller, based on a police report.
“Grant’s statements are of such a regarding nature that there’s cause to imagine he’s a hazard not solely to the neighborhood, but in addition to himself,” prosecutors wrote.
Peter Cooper, Grant’s lawyer within the riot case, didn’t instantly reply Friday to an electronic mail looking for remark.
Prosecutors initially didn’t search Grant’s pretrial detention after his Oct. 14 arrest in North Carolina on Capitol riot-related expenses.
Earlier than then-President Donald Trump completed his speech on Jan. 6, Grant and a co-defendant, Ryan Samsel, have been among the many first rioters to strategy Capitol cops guarding the constructing, based on prosecutors. Video captured Grant and Samsel main the primary crowd of rioters to enter a restricted space towards a steel barricade the place a number of officers have been positioned.
“The 2 defendants are amongst those that used violence to set off a sequence of occasions that concerned 1000’s of rioters invading the U.S. Capitol, accidents, deaths, property harm, havoc, and the delay of the certification of a presidential election,” prosecutors wrote.
Grant additionally entered the Capitol and went inside at the least two personal Senate workplaces, based on prosecutors.