{"id":330184,"date":"2025-12-04T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330184\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:18:08","slug":"fbi-makes-arrest-over-pipe-bombs-placed-in-dc-before-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330184\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI makes arrest over pipe bombs placed in DC before Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The FBI made an arrest on Thursday in its nearly 5-year-old investigation<\/a> into who placed pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot<\/a> at the U.S. Capitol, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.<\/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 dark chapter of American history that is the violent Capitol siege<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The arrest took place Thursday morning, and the suspect is a man, the official said. He was arrested in Virginia, according to another person familiar with the matter. No other details were immediately available, including the charges the man might face. The people who described the arrest were not authorized to publicly discuss a case that has not yet been made public and spoke on the condition of anonymity. <\/p>\n

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Members of law enforcement are pictured outside Democratic National Committee headquarters, Sept. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein, File)<\/p>\n

Members of law enforcement are pictured outside Democratic National Committee headquarters, Sept. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein, File)<\/p>\n

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The pipe bombs were placed on the evening of Jan. 5, 2021, near the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in the District of Columbia. Nobody was hurt before the bombs were rendered safe, but the FBI has said both devices could have been lethal.<\/p>\n

In the years since, investigators have sought the public\u2019s help in identifying a shadowy subject seen on surveillance camera even as they struggled to determine answers to basic questions, including the person\u2019s gender and motive and whether the act had a clear connection to the riot at the Capitol a day later when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the building<\/a> in a bid to halt the certification of the Republican\u2019s 2020 election loss<\/a> to Democrat Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Seeking a breakthrough, the FBI last January publicized additional information<\/a> about the investigation, including an estimate that the suspect was about 5-foot-7, as well as previously unreleased video of the suspect placing one of the bombs.<\/p>\n

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Images from an FBI poster seeking a suspect who allegedly placed pipe bombs in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (FBI via AP, File)<\/p>\n

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The bureau had for years struggled to pinpoint a suspect despite hundreds of tips, a review of tens of thousands of video files and a significant number of interviews.<\/p>\n

In the absence of harder evidence, Republican lawmakers and right-wing media outlets promoted conspiracy theories<\/a> about the pipe bombs. House Republicans<\/a> also criticized security lapses, questioning how law enforcement failed to detect the bombs for 17 hours. Dan Bongino, the current FBI deputy director, floated the possibility last year before being tapped for his job that the act was an \u201cinside job\u201d and involved a \u201cmassive cover-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s top two leaders, Bongino and Director Kash Patel, sought to breathe new life into the investigation despite having openly disparaged the bureau\u2019s broader approach to the Jan. 6 siege and despite Trump\u2019s pardons on his first day back in office<\/a> of the rioters who stormed the Capitol, including those who violently attacked police<\/a> with poles and other makeshift weapons.<\/p>\n

In a long post on X last month, Bongino wrote that the FBI had brought in new personnel to examine the case and \u201cdramatically increased investigative resources\u201d along with the public award for information \u201cto utilize crowd-sourcing leads.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The FBI made an arrest on Thursday in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11164,23,1927,1574,107114,32856,3506,3505,12,793,3319,48296,152186,3,28387,795,21,19,22,20,25,24,5148,800],"class_list":["post-330184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-2021-united-states-capitol-riot","tag-america","tag-ap-top-news","tag-bombings","tag-capitol-siege","tag-daniel-bongino","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-kash-patel","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-news","tag-u-s-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-virginia","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}