TikTok, Facebook posts lead to charges against Missouri man in Capitol insurrection

TikTok and Fb posts helped result in federal prices towards an Independence man arrested Monday in reference to the Capitol riot, courtroom data present.

Federal authorities arrested Devin Kiel Rossman in Kansas Metropolis after he was charged Thursday on 4 misdemeanor counts, in line with courtroom paperwork. Rossman is the twenty second Missouri resident to face federal prices for taking part within the Jan. 6 revolt.

In accordance with the charging paperwork, the FBI acquired an nameless tip on Jan. 7, 2021, that Rossman had posted a video of himself on Fb standing on the balcony of the Capitol constructing. Pictures from his Fb account additionally confirmed pictures taken inside Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s workplace.

Investigators then obtained data by way of a search warrant served on Google and located {that a} cellular gadget related to Rossman’s gmail tackle was on the Capitol on Jan. 6. The Google location information confirmed that the gadget was contained in the Capitol for an hour and 53 minutes.

On June 23, 2021, the paperwork say, an FBI agent noticed a TikTok video that depicted somebody contained in the Capitol on Jan. 6. On the 20-second mark on the video, the paperwork say, “a white male with a beard sporting a tan jacket or shirt, blue denims, and a baseball cap with sun shades perched atop was seen descending stairs contained in the Capitol Constructing.”

After evaluating the video to Fb pictures, Rossman’s driver’s license picture and pictures on closed-circuit TV within the Capitol on Jan. 6, authorities decided the individual on TikTok was Rossman.

In different Capitol surveillance movies, a person matching Rossman’s description could be seen with folks in an inside hallway on the second flooring of the Capitol, the paperwork say. An individual matching Rossman’s description additionally was seen coming into an workplace, then reappearing within the hallway.

The FBI executed a search warrant on Rossman’s Fb account on Oct. 20, 2021, and after reviewing his non-public messages confirmed that he traveled to Washington, D.C., and went contained in the Capitol on Jan. 6, in line with the paperwork.

“In a couple of dialog, Rossman admitted that he entered U.S. Home of Consultant Speaker Nancy J. Pelosi’s workplace,” the paperwork say. “Rossman described what he seen inside her workplace, together with an open laptop computer and several other tv screens.”

One picture in his Fb account was a photograph of Pelosi’s title plate above her workplace door.

Rossman was charged with coming into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted constructing or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol constructing; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol constructing.

It wasn’t clear why Rossman wasn’t charged till final week. Greater than 800 folks have been charged in reference to the Capitol riot.

Thus far, 11 of the 22 Missouri defendants have pleaded responsible to prices involving the revolt. Ten of the 11 have been sentenced, and one — Proud Boys member Louis Colon of Blue Springs — awaits sentencing.

This story was initially revealed Could 16, 2022 4:17 PM.