Indiana man pleads guilty, admits to being in US Capitol during January 6 insurrection

A really fast responsible plea has been labored out by an Indiana man charged in final 12 months’s rebel.

As violent crowds broke by means of home windows on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Jeffrey Munger admits that he then climbed by means of.

Photos from Capitol safety cameras present the 55-year-old Munger coming by means of a busted-out window subsequent to a Senate facet door.

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At one level, simply after the Indiana man will get inside, he’s seen stopping to take a selfie.

In D.C. federal court docket Friday, Munger entered a lightning-fast responsible plea, lower than two months after being charged and arrested at his Goshen house.

In line with a submitting together with his plea settlement, Munger mentioned he drove from Indiana to D.C. “to attend the January 6 ‘Cease the Steal’ rally,” a protest occasion difficult the result of the presidential election that Donald Trump misplaced.

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Munger now pled responsible to then going to the Capitol, the place he “entered the constructing by means of a damaged window” and “remained within the constructing for about 14 minutes.” The FBI gathered GPS and telephone data that put Munger on the Capitol grounds for multiple hour and 10 minutes.

His responsible plea is amongst a number of hundred of the almost 800 folks charged with January 6 violations.

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A database monitoring prosecutions from that day in D.C. states that 30% of all charged circumstances have resulted in convictions, most from responsible pleas.

Sentencing for Jeffrey Munger’s 14-minute mistake shall be in late September. He’s pleading responsible to a single Class B misdemeanor-parading or demonstrating contained in the Capitol.

It does carry as much as a six-month jail sentence however most related responsible pleas from the day of rebel have resulted in probation.