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A timeline of what happened when pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol
The timeline provides an overview of the riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the building and sent members of Congress fleeing.
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Investigators say a combination of anonymous tips and cellphone data helped identify the latest Iowan charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including for allegedly assaulting multiple police officers.
Federal prosecutors have announced charges earlier this month against Dickens’s Count Jordan in northwestern Iowa and his brother Christopher Jordan of Utah. The two are charged with assaulting or obstructing officers, civil disorder, trespassing and disorderly conduct.
How were the Jordan brothers identified?
Earl Jordan is the ninth Iowan charged in the Capitol riot, and his arrest is the first of an Iowan announced in more than two years. Federal prosecutors have continued to file charges over the four years since the attack as suspects have been identified. Earlier this month, they said they had charged more than 1,500 people.
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According to a statement of facts initially sealed by the court, the FBI first identified Christopher Jordan based on a tip and confirmed his identity by interviewing people who knew him and analyzing video footage of the attack.
Earl Jordan was separately identified as a suspect through a search warrant filed on Google for geolocation data from the Capitol grounds. Investigators found a device on the property using a Google email address linked to three phone numbers, one of which belonged to someone who lived at Jordan’s address. Combining that with a tip that Jordan had been present at the Capitol, the FBI reportedly surveilled him and confirmed that he was the person in several videos and photos of the attack.
What would Earl Jordan have done?
According to the FBI, the Jordans were together on the west side of the Capitol during the riot, in which a group of officers from the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department attempted to move through the crowd to reinforce a police line. Earl Jordan was caught on video elbowing an officer as he walked past him, then “lunged” at him and “swiped his hand at the officer’s face,” according to the FBI.
Other officers tried to intervene, but Jordan allegedly lunged again, “grabbing the officer’s throat” and shoving him. Christopher Jordan also became involved in the fight, and video footage shows the two struggling with police and blocking their progress through the crowd. At one point, Christopher Jordan allegedly grabbed an officer’s baton and refused to let go. The two only retreated after another rioter pulled him away from officers, investigators said.
Later, the brothers are seen in a crowd fighting with officers who tried to secure one of the Capitol doors. As officers closed the door, Earl Jordan “picked up a piece of metal fencing and threw it” at the doorway, the FBI said.
The two reportedly remained on the Capitol grounds until that evening, when officers finally regained control of the scene.
Court records show that Earl Jordan was released on his own recognizance, and the brothers will be arraigned in Washington on November 4. Earl Jordan’s attorney did not respond to a message seeking comment Friday.
Where do Iowa’s other cases stand as of Jan. 6?
Jordan is the first Iowan in more than two years to be charged in connection with the riot. The other eight Iowan defendants have already been sentenced. The case of one of them, Leo Kelly of Cedar Rapids, who received a 30-month prison sentence, was sent back to the trial court on appeal after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors violated one of the statutes under which Kelly and other rioters were convicted.
Kelly does expects a prosecution to take place in the coming months.
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Of the other seven, several people received long sentences and remain in prison. Kyle Young of Redfieldwho pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer, is expected to serve time in prison until 2029, and Salvador Sandoval of Ankenywho also fought with several police officers, is in custody until 2028. A third, Doug Jensen of Des Moineswho was convicted of leading a crowd to confront a police officer in the building, was released into a halfway house earlier this year. Bureau of Prisons records show he is no longer in government custody as of earlier this month.
The remaining Iowa suspects – Deborah Sandoval, Daryl Johnson, Kenny Rader and Chad Heathcote – received shorter sentences and have since been released.
Former President Donald Trump has said that if he is re-elected on November 5, his priority will be Day 1 in office will pardon those convicted in the riotwhich was intended to prevent Congress from certifying the election of his 2020 opponent, President Joe Biden, and his current opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
William Morris covers courts for the Des Moines Register. He can be reached via [email protected] or 715-573-8166.