{"id":325097,"date":"2025-12-04T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325097\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:53:07","slug":"arrest-reportedly-made-in-attempted-pipe-bomb-attack-in-lead-up-to-january-6-us-capitol-riot-us-capitol-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325097\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest reportedly made in attempted pipe bomb attack in lead-up to January 6 US Capitol riot | US Capitol attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

US authorities have made an arrest in connection with pipe bombs that were planted outside the headquarters of both the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington DC<\/a> on the eve of 6 January 2021, according to reports on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Explosive devices were placed at night and then, on the afternoon of 6 January<\/a>, the US Capitol attack occurred, when a mob of Donald Trump\u2019s supporters stormed Congress in an effort to prevent the certification of Joe Biden\u2019s win in the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n

No one had been apprehended since a suspect placed one pipe bomb in an alley outside the Republican National Committee headquarters and put another bomb on a park bench near the Democratic National Committee headquarters, according to the FBI<\/a>. A reward for pivotal information was increased<\/a> in 2023 to $500,000.<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, Reuters, the Associated Press and CNN, each citing unnamed sources, reported that a suspect was now in custody.<\/p>\n

The arrest marks the first time investigators have settled on a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories and remained an enduring mystery in the shadow of the insurrection at the US Capitol.<\/p>\n

Videos obtained by the FBI and by the Washington Post at the time of the incidents showed a person believed to be the suspect walking through the neighborhood, wearing a gray hoodie, a mask and carrying a backpack.<\/p>\n

The FBI noted that the suspect wore distinctive sneakers \u2013 black, gray and yellow Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes.<\/p>\n

The pipe bombs were rendered safe after discovery and nobody was hurt, but the FBI has said both devices could have been lethal.<\/p>\n

The suspect was in Virginia when he was arrested on Thursday, according to a law enforcement official, and he was expected to make an initial court appearance in Washington DC, according to a source briefed on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US authorities have made an arrest in connection with pipe bombs that were planted outside the headquarters of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-325097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}