Trial dates set for Montana-linked Jan. 6 Capitol Riot cases

HELENA – Trial dates have been set for 3 Jan. 6 Capitol Riot circumstances with Montana ties, together with two Dillon males and the chief of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes.

This month a federal choose set a trial date of Could 15, 2023, for Isaac Sturgeon of Dillon. He’s accused of assaulting police on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Prosecutors allege in court docket paperwork that Sturgeon was seen on an officer’s body-worn digicam on January 6 and was a part of a bunch that picked up a metallic barricade and shoved it into a bunch of D.C. Metropolitan Law enforcement officials.

Sturgeon, alongside along with his co-defendants Craig Bingert and Taylor Johnatakis, has been indicted on greater than a half dozen expenses, together with obstruction of justice; assaulting, resisting or impeding officers; participating in bodily violence in a restricted constructing and an act of bodily violence within the Capitol grounds.

The Dillon man was arrested on March 6, 2021, at JKF Airport in New York after being ordered to return from Kenya. , Witnesses informed investigators on the time that Sturgeon travels incessantly.

Probably the most high-profile Jan. 6 case is that of Stewart Rhodes, who will go to trial on September 26.

Rhodes, together with a number of different members of Oath Keepers, has been accused of committing seditious conspiracy associated to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. He had been a working towards lawyer in Montana earlier than his disbarment in 2015. Within the years following his disbarment, Rhodes relocated to Texas.

The third Montana-related Jan. 6 case to go to trial is that of Dillon enterprise proprietor Hank Muntzer. A trial date of Aug. 30, 2022, had been set for Muntzer, however that has been pushed again to Feb. 6, 2023.

A grand jury introduced 5 expenses towards Muntzer final 12 months, one felony and 4 misdemeanors.

To this point, 4 Montanans have pleaded responsible or are anticipated to plead responsible to expenses associated to Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.