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Longtime Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio charged with conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol

By Spencer S. Hsu and Devlin Barrett Washington Post
Arrest shows prosecutors are moving beyond the scene of the crime toward anyone who directed or planned such violence.

Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a longtime leader of the Proud Boys far-right group, was arrested Tuesday on charges that he conspired with followers who attacked Congress last year — a high-profile indictment unsealed the same day Jan. 6 prosecutors won their first trial conviction from a D.C. jury.

Tarrio, 38, who lives in Miami, joins Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes as the second leader of a radical group charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Neither man is accused of entering the Capitol that day, and Tarrio wasn’t even in Washington. Their arrests show that prosecutors are moving their sprawling investigation beyond the scene of the crime toward anyone may have who directed or helped plan the violence.

Prosecutors say Tarrio conspired with other Proud Boys to obstruct an official proceeding. They also charged him with other crimes related to actions allegedly committed by followers on the day Congress gathered to certify Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

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